Encouraging classroom peer interactions: Evidence from Chinese migrant schools
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☆ We would like to thank Weili Ding, Esther Duflo, Gigi Kremer, Victor Lavy, Steven Lehrer, Patrick McEwan, A Hongliang Zhang, two anonymous reviewers and the se Stanford, Peking University, NEUDC, Oxford and Chinese U helpful comments on the drafts of this paper. Financial sup the University of Macau (Grant SRG009-FSH13-LT) is grate ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (T. Li).
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