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bece-1640	Zhao, Qian	Meritocracy in Education: Bridging or Widening Educational Inequality	2025	2	.pdf	application/pdf	338	19	38	Nevertheless, in the context of the exacerba- tion of structural social inequalities, a sizable number of studies find that meritocracy, in practice, is unable to promote fairness, but instead obscures the issue of uneven distribution of education resources, further widening the disparities in educational opportunities between students with different soci- oeconomic status (SES). Based on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study is an empirical analysis of the effects of the meritocratic belief on access to educational opportunities in Chinese adolescents, as well as its heterogeneous effects among students with distinct SES backgrounds.	cache/bece-1640.pdf	txt/bece-1640.txt