家庭背景课外辅导与儿童的学业成绩-北京大学中国社会科学调查中心.pdf

CFPS China Family Panel Studies 中 国 家 庭 追 踪 调 查 Working Paper Series ：WP14-004 家庭背景、课外辅导与儿童的学业成绩 张月云谢宇 2014 .10.16 家庭背景、课外辅导与儿童的学业成绩 张月云 谢宇 作者及单位： 张月云： 香港中文大学社会学系 （yyzhang14@ ） 谢宇： 美国密歇根大学社会学系、北京大学社会研究中心 1 Family background, private tutoring, and children’s academic achievement in recent China Private tutoring is becoming common in recent China, but its causes and consequences have not been fully discussed in empirical research. Drawing upon the children sample (age 10-15) from 2010 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS 2010), this study explores (1) whether children ’s tutoring behaviors are influenced by family backgrounds, and (2) whether private tutoring benefits children ’s academic achievement. We pay attention to not only children’s binary choice of attending tutoring or not, but also the within-group difference in tutoring expenses for those who have attended private tutoring. Multivariate analyses show that both children ’s likelihood of attending private tutoring and the exact amount of money they receive from parents for their tutoring are positively associated with parental education and family income. We also find that controlling for family backgrounds, children who have attended private tutoring obtain higher scores in the verbal test than those who have not, but there is no significant difference in math performance between the two groups. Within the group of children who have attended private tutoring, higher monetary spending on tutori