Family and Educational Inequality in China

Xiaogang Wu is the Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science and Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai and New York University, and the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) at NYU Shanghai. His research and teaching interests include Chinese society, social inequality and stratification, survey and quantitative methods, and urban sociology. He has been serving as the Chief Editor of Chinese Sociological Review since 2011. He was a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and a member of international advisory board of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS).

• Introduction: Using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to Study the Role of Family in Educational Stratification in China 1. An Introduction to the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2.. Cognitive Ability: Social Correlates and Consequences in Contemporary China 3. Family Background, Private Tutoring, and Children’s Educational Performance in Contemporary China 4. Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Meritocracy? Academic Ability and China’s Urban-Rural Gap in Access to Higher Education. 5. Are Children from Divorced Single-Parent Families Disadvantaged? New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies 6. The influence of family background on educational expectations: a comparative study 7. Dual pathways of intergenerational influence over multiple generations 8. Fathering, living arrangements, and child development in China 9. Parental perceptions of economic inequality and investment in education in China 10. Changes in family investment in children’s out-of-school education in China, 2010–2018 11. Early childhood growth trajectories and early adolescent cognitive achievement: the role of catch-up 12. Preschool advantage: economic disparities in the long-term effects of early childhood education on cognitive development in China