TY  - JOUR
A1  - Shih, Lea
A1  - Cao, Wei
T1  - The Impact of the “Belt and Road Initiative” on International Scholarship Students
T2  - Frontiers in Sociology
N2  - The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had a significant impact on China in political, economic, and cultural terms. This study focuses on the cultural domain, especially on scholarship students from the countries that signed bilateral cooperation agreements with China under the BRI. Using an integrated approach combining the difference-in-differences method and the gravity model, we explore the correlation between the BRI and the increasing number of international scholarship students funded by the Chinese government, as well as the determinants of students' decision to study in China. The panel data from 2010 to 2018 show that the launch of BRI has had a positive impact on the number of scholarship students from BRI countries. The number of scholarship recipients from non-BRI countries also increased, but at a much slower rate than those from BRI countries. The sole exception is the United States, which has trended downward for both state-funded and self-funded students.
KW  - China
KW  - Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
KW  - scholarship students
KW  - difference-in-differences
KW  - education aid
KW  - China
KW  - One-Belt-One-Road-Initiative
KW  - Stipendiat
KW  - Student
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1870
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-18702
VL  - 2022
IS  - Band 7 (2022)
PB  - Frontiers Media
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -