International Summer School on Educational Finance

Israel Marques and Thomas Remington took part in the International Summer School on Educational Finance that was held on July 3-10 in Beijing. The event was organized by the China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University (CIEFR) and HSE Institute of Education.

Israel Marques presented his current research as a keynote speaker at the session “Development and Financial mechanism of Skill Formation System”.  The trip was also a part of the project “Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education: Firm Level Evidence from Russia and China” that is supported by a Russian Science Foundation (RSF) grant and carried out jointly with Chinese colleagues. The organizational workshop that was held during the summer school set terms for cooperation between our team and our Chinese partners, as well as outlined the research papers that will be carried out for our project, the teams involved, and the data that needs to be collected for each.