Poverty and proximate barriers to learning : vision deficiencies, vision correction and educational outcomes in rural northwest China.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2008
Country:
China
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Social Change
Authors:
Zhang, Y., Hannum, E.

Abstract

Few studies of educational barriers in developing countries have investigated the role of children’s vision problems, despite the self-evident challenge that poor vision poses to classroom learning and the potential for a simple ameliorative intervention. We address this gap with an analysis of two datasets from Gansu Province, a highly impoverished province in northwest China.

Citation

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Poverty and proximate barriers to learning : vision deficiencies, vision correction and educational outcomes in rural northwest China.

Published 1 January 2008
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