Contract teachers and student achievement in rural China: evidence from class fixed effects
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Lei, Wang2; Li, Mengjie2; Zhang, Siqi3; Sun, Yonglei3; Sylvia, Sean4; Yang, Enyan5,6; Ma, Guangrong1; Zhang, Linxiu7; Mo, Di8; Rozelle, Scott8 |
| 刊名 | AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
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| 出版日期 | 2018-04-01 |
| 卷号 | 62期号:2页码:299-322 |
| 关键词 | China contract teachers primary education student achievement |
| ISSN号 | 1364-985X |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8489.12250 |
| 通讯作者 | Zhang, Linxiu(lxzhang.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | For schooling to play an important role in the development of human capital, the system of education needs to provide quality education, which among other things requires high-quality teachers. Facing fiscal constraints and growing enrolments, school systems in developing countries often supplement their teaching staff by hiring contract teachers. However, there is limited evidence on how the effectiveness of these teachers compares to that of civil service teachers. We use a dataset from rural primary schools in western China to estimate the causal effect of contract teachers on student achievement and find that gains in student scores on standardised examinations in mathematics and Chinese are less in classes taught by contract teachers than in classes taught by civil service teachers. The results demonstrate that China's education system needs to focus on producing high-quality teachers to improve the quality of schooling in its rural education system. The findings imply that educators in developing countries should not only seek to hire increasingly more civil service teachers in rural schools, but they should also identify ways of improving the quality of contract teachers. If efforts to improve teaching can succeed, rural students can learn more, earn higher incomes and contribute more to the productivity of the overall economy. |
| WOS关键词 | INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES ; EDUCATION ; QUALITY ; INVESTMENT ; SCHOOLS |
| 资助项目 | 111 Project ; Ministry of Education of the P.R. China[B16031] ; State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs P.R. China |
| WOS研究方向 | Agriculture ; Business & Economics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000429698400007 |
| 出版者 | WILEY |
| 资助机构 | 111 Project ; Ministry of Education of the P.R. China ; State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs P.R. China |
| 源URL | [http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/57288]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Zhang, Linxiu |
| 作者单位 | 1.Renmin Univ China, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Shaanxi Normal Univ, Int Business Sch, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 3.Shaanxi Normal Univ, Ctr Expt Econ Educ, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 4.Univ N Carolina, Dept Hlth Policy & Management, Chapel Hill, NC USA 5.Renmin Univ China, Postdoctoral Sci Res Workstat, Postal Savings Bank China, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Renmin Univ China, Ctr Postdoctoral Studies, Beijing, Peoples R China 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Chinese Agr Policy, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China 8.Stanford Univ, Rural Educ Act Project, Stanford, CA 94305 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lei, Wang,Li, Mengjie,Zhang, Siqi,et al. Contract teachers and student achievement in rural China: evidence from class fixed effects[J]. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS,2018,62(2):299-322. |
| APA | Lei, Wang.,Li, Mengjie.,Zhang, Siqi.,Sun, Yonglei.,Sylvia, Sean.,...&Rozelle, Scott.(2018).Contract teachers and student achievement in rural China: evidence from class fixed effects.AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS,62(2),299-322. |
| MLA | Lei, Wang,et al."Contract teachers and student achievement in rural China: evidence from class fixed effects".AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS 62.2(2018):299-322. |
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