Lingxin Hao|Alfred Ko-wei Hu|Jamie O. Lo
Two Aspects of the Rural-Urban Divide and Educational Stratification in China: A Trajectory Analysis
contextualized chinas social change past halfcentury paper develops notion dichotomous inequality conceptualize two aspects chinas ruralurban divide educational inequalitythe household registration system hukou assigns people topbottom hierarchy ruralurban schooling system institutionalizes unequal resource distribution diverse school mission based conceptualization formulate chinese version maximally maintained inequality mmi hypothesis capitalize individual educational history data china general social survey cgss 2008 conduct trajectory analysis using generalized mixture modeling estimate differential effects two aspects ruralurban divide educational inequality china findings indicate 1 sorting mechanism rural hukou places ruralhukou people bottom educational stratification 2 penalty attending rural pretertiary school increases educational stages 3 cumulative disadvantage rural hukou rural school overall findings attest chineseversion mmi behind principle inequality reproduction