Nong, Huifu; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Hongjia; Zhu, Rong - 2021
This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … alleviation improves the scholastic performance of girls and their achievement rank among peer students. However, we find no such …