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Title:: Double Differences in Family Education Guidance Service and Policy Implications

Keywords:: family education guidance service; parents' educational literacy; family education ability; propensity score matching method

Abstract:: Family education guidance is an important supporting force to improve parents' educational literacy and promote the sustainable development of family education. Based on the survey data of 1850 families in 18 counties(districts)of 8 cities in Hubei Province, this paper empirically tests the impact of family education guidance on parents' educational literacy by using ordinary least square method, propensity score matching method and quantile regression method. The results show that there are double differences in “opportunity acquisition” and “effect presentation” in family education guidance. There is an imbalance in the opportunities for different families to receive family education guidance, and urban parents and parents with higher socio-economic status have a higher chance of receiving family education guidance. Overall, family education guidance can help improve parents' educational literacy. Relatively speaking, family education guidance has no significant effect on parents with low educational literacy, but has a stronger positive effect on parents with high educational literacy. Focusing on the improvement of parents' educational literacy, innovating the form of family education guidance, and providing more convenient and effective family education guidance services for disadvantaged parents are important ways to reduce the inequalities in family education guidance services and improve the effect of family education guidance services.