A program of The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE), a research center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Scholarly Publications
Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid like CEOs? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China
February 2019
Unlike performance incentives for private sector managers, little is known about performance incentives for managers in public sector bureaucracies.
Social Engagement and Elderly Health in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS)
January 2019
This study examines the impact of social engagement on elderly health in China. A two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) regression approach was used to examine the causal relationship.
Breastfeeding and the Risk of Illness among Young Children in Rural China
January 2019
Poor rural areas in China exhibit the country’s highest rates of child mortality, often stemming from preventable health conditions such as diarrhea and respiratory infection.
Other Publications
News
凤凰网公益: Stanford Professor Focuses on Education in Rural China
January 2019
Author Chen Ying writes about Professor Scott Rozelle and REAP's projects supporting youth in rural China. Read full text here. 罗斯高，斯坦福大学教授，发展经济学家。扎根中国农村近40年，是不折不扣的中国通。
Bloomberg Businessweek: China Built a Global Economy in 40 Years. Now it Has a New Plan
December 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek writes on China's historic economic reforms and the future to come, quoting Scott Rozelle and REAP's work on education and human capacity building in rural China.
People's News: Nobel Prize winner draws global attention to issues with early childhood development in rural China at international conference co-hosted by REAP and Alibaba
November 2018
Read full text here. 儿童早期发展关乎人的一生，对贫困农村儿童早期发展领域的投入，会为社会发展带来长期且高效的回报。2018年11月17日，“养育未来，从0开始——2018年儿童早期发展国际论坛”在陕西西安举行，诺贝尔经济学奖得主詹姆斯·赫克曼等国内外学者，用来自世界各地的成功案例提示着儿童早期发展工作的重要性。
Events
The Global Landscape of In-Service Teacher Professional Development Programs: The Gap between Evidence & Practice
November 8, 2017
About the Topic: We review evidence on the characteristics of the most effective teacher professional development (PD) programs, present new data from around the world on the actual characteristics...
End Heuristics in Retrospective Voting: Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Experiment
October 2, 2017
About the Speaker: Patrick McEwan is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. He conducts research on education and social policy in developing countries, especially in Latin America.
Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence From Chinese Schools
January 23, 2017
About the Topic: Professor Park will discuss how promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by providing evidence from China's system of promotions for teachers.
Projects
PRICE Manual of Procedures
Chinese children have among the highest rates of myopia in the world.
English
Assessing & Improving the Quality of Higher Education
An International Comparative StudyUniversity attendance is increasing around the world, but are graduates learning the essential skills required to succeed in the workforce and grow the economy...
English
Assessing and Credentialing Vocational High Schools
Problem Vocational high schools in China serve as an alternative to academic high school and typically provide two years of in-the-classroom training and a one-year, school-supervised, on-the-job...
English
Multimedia
Yi Xi: How Rural Children's Development Affects China in the Future
December 2017
This video is in Chinese.
People
Prashant Loyalka Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Center Fellow, Rural Education Action Program 
Scott Rozelle Senior Fellow, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies 
