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Do Rural Students Really Perform Worse than Urban Students Do? Empirical Evidence from a University Entrance Program in Taiwan

  1. Pei-An Liao1,
  2. Hung-Hao Chang2,
  3. Jiun-Hao Wang3,*,
  4. Tai-Hsiung Horng4

Article first published online: 17 JAN 2013

DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00096.x

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Rural Sociology

Rural Sociology

Volume 78, Issue 1, pages 109–131, March 2013

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Liao, P.-A., Chang, H.-H., Wang, J.-H. and Horng, T.-H. (2013), Do Rural Students Really Perform Worse than Urban Students Do? Empirical Evidence from a University Entrance Program in Taiwan. Rural Sociology, 78: 109–131. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00096.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Economics, Shih Hsin University

  2. 2

    Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University

  3. 3

    Department of Bio-industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University

  4. 4

    Undergraduate Academic Affairs Division, National Taiwan University

* Direct correspondence to Jiun-Hao Wang, Department of Bio-industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University, Taiwan No 1, Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 4, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan. Tel.: +886–2-33664415; Fax: +886–23635879; e-mail: wangjh@ntu.edu.tw

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  2. Article first published online: 17 JAN 2013

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