Children’s E ducational E ngagement in Rural China * E mily Hannum Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania hannumem@ ssc.upenn.edu Albert Park Department of E conomics, University of Michigan alpark@ umich.edu Draft: Comments Welcome * We thank the Spencer Foundation Small Grants and Major Grants programs for supporting the collection and analysis of data for the Gansu Survey of Children and Families. E mily Hannum was supported while writing this paper by a fellowship from the National Academy of E ducation. Albert Park acknowledges an An Wang Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Fairbank Center, Harvard University.