In China, Betting It All on a Child in College

[ucbalumnus]

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@Beliavsky

As Heather Mac Donald notes in her comments on the NYT article, having families, rather than the government, pay for more of the schooling of their children may encourage children to work harder, since education is not seen as free.

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<p>Except then the children of the poorest families won’t be able to go to school at all because they families cannot afford it. In such a situation, education will tend to reinforce inherited socioeconomic status for the next generation.</p>