Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?  

作　　者：Tianyang Liu Baozhong Su Jingjing Wang Scott Rozelle 

机构地区：[1]College of Economics and Management,China Agricultural University,China [2]College of Agricultural Economics and Management,Shanxi Agricultural University,China [3]Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions,Stanford University,USA

出　　处：《China & World Economy》2024年第4期114-145,共32页中国与世界经济（英文版）

摘　　要：Policymakers in China have attempted to improve the quality of rural education by investing in teacher salaries through initiatives like the Rural Teachers Support Plan(RTSP).This study estimates the efects of teacher salary increase on students'educational outcomes in rural China by utilizing the exogenous variations of rural teacher salaries induced by the RTSP.It employs an intensity-based difference-in-differences strategy and panel data from 2010 to 2018 with 3,351 rural children.The findings reveal that an increase in teacher salaries had a significant positive impact on students'examination results.Moreover the results of mechanism analysis indicate that salary increases could have both quality and quantity effects on students'outcomes by increasing the proportion of highly educated teachers and reducing the student-teacher ratio.Our findings contribute to the discussion on the importance of teacher salary incentives in education production functions and provide insights for other countries undertaking rural education reforms.

关 键 词：educational performance rural children Rural Teachers Support Plan teache salary 

分 类 号：G451.5[文化科学—教育学]