Teachers and Urban‐Rural Gaps in Educational Outcomes
利用中国学生和教师的大规模面板数据，研究发现教师质量的城乡差异是学生学业成就城乡差距的重要原因，若农村教师质量与城市相当，差距将大幅缩小。
Abstract We examine the role of teachers in explaining the urban‐rural gap in educational outcomes. Using a large panel data set of students and teachers collected from China and explicitly controlling for the endogeneity of prior student academic achievement, we find that the urban‐rural difference in teacher effects contributes in large part to the observed urban‐rural gap in student academic achievement. In other words, if rural teachers were of the same quality as urban teachers, the urban‐rural gap in student academic achievement would be reduced substantially.