TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive ability
T2 - Social correlates and consequences in contemporary China
AU - Huang, Guoying
AU - Xie, Yu
AU - Xu, Hongwei
N1 - Funding Information:
The research is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71461137001), the Center for Social Research and the Institute of Social Science Survey at Peking University, and the Population Studies Center (with support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, R24HD041028), the Survey Research Center, and the Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan.
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In this paper, we describe the measurement of cognitive ability in the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), especially for verbal and mathematical skills, memory, and quantitative reasoning. The available CFPS cognitive measurements can be useful for studies on the importance of cognitive ability in many substantive domains of interest. Using the CFPS data, we show that measures of cognitive ability are clearly related to key demographic and social characteristics, such as age, gender, education, and hukou status. We also illustrate how cognitive ability influences school performance and deviant behaviors among children, income and political capital among adults, and daily functioning among the elderly.
AB - In this paper, we describe the measurement of cognitive ability in the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), especially for verbal and mathematical skills, memory, and quantitative reasoning. The available CFPS cognitive measurements can be useful for studies on the importance of cognitive ability in many substantive domains of interest. Using the CFPS data, we show that measures of cognitive ability are clearly related to key demographic and social characteristics, such as age, gender, education, and hukou status. We also illustrate how cognitive ability influences school performance and deviant behaviors among children, income and political capital among adults, and daily functioning among the elderly.
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U2 - 10.1080/21620555.2015.1032161
DO - 10.1080/21620555.2015.1032161
M3 - Article
C2 - 27570709
AN - SCOPUS:84953861643
SN - 2162-0555
VL - 47
SP - 287
EP - 313
JO - Chinese Sociological Review
JF - Chinese Sociological Review
IS - 4
ER -