The Special-Contracted Teacher Scheme,a supplement to the traditional mode of teacher supply,has been implemented for 17 years and the teaching quality of those teachers has gained a lot of attention.Using data of tea...The Special-Contracted Teacher Scheme,a supplement to the traditional mode of teacher supply,has been implemented for 17 years and the teaching quality of those teachers has gained a lot of attention.Using data of teachers and students from the sample counties in four central and western provincial-level administrative units,this paper studies how special-contracted teachers have affected students’academic performance and non-cognitive ability according to the student development framework of the new human capital theory,and how those effects vary among different teacher groups.Results show that while special-contracted teachers have helped improve the academic performance of rural students,their role is limited in improving students’non-cognitive ability.At the same time,female special-contracted teachers and those without a normal major play an obviously bigger role in raising students’academic performance.The conclusion is that special-contracted teachers can to some extent help narrow the urban-rural gap in academic performance,but more research needs to be done to better understand their effects on students’non-cognitive ability.展开更多
This research develops a model of optimal political expenditures and shows how money inevitably controls government leaders,subject only to a single constraint relating to negative public reaction.The paper demonstrat...This research develops a model of optimal political expenditures and shows how money inevitably controls government leaders,subject only to a single constraint relating to negative public reaction.The paper demonstrates theoretically why many businesses do not make such investments despite abnormally high returns from the expended political capital.In particular,firms with less economic resources optimally recognise that they can successfully participate in the political process only in consortium with the dominant players of mutual interests to influence broader government policies.The largest corporations are therefore able to buy government power with a minimal political outlay.展开更多
基金the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Research 2018 Project“A Study of Rural Teachers’Supply Willingness and Influences from the Perspective of Total Compensation Theory”(No.18YJA880015).
文摘The Special-Contracted Teacher Scheme,a supplement to the traditional mode of teacher supply,has been implemented for 17 years and the teaching quality of those teachers has gained a lot of attention.Using data of teachers and students from the sample counties in four central and western provincial-level administrative units,this paper studies how special-contracted teachers have affected students’academic performance and non-cognitive ability according to the student development framework of the new human capital theory,and how those effects vary among different teacher groups.Results show that while special-contracted teachers have helped improve the academic performance of rural students,their role is limited in improving students’non-cognitive ability.At the same time,female special-contracted teachers and those without a normal major play an obviously bigger role in raising students’academic performance.The conclusion is that special-contracted teachers can to some extent help narrow the urban-rural gap in academic performance,but more research needs to be done to better understand their effects on students’non-cognitive ability.
文摘This research develops a model of optimal political expenditures and shows how money inevitably controls government leaders,subject only to a single constraint relating to negative public reaction.The paper demonstrates theoretically why many businesses do not make such investments despite abnormally high returns from the expended political capital.In particular,firms with less economic resources optimally recognise that they can successfully participate in the political process only in consortium with the dominant players of mutual interests to influence broader government policies.The largest corporations are therefore able to buy government power with a minimal political outlay.
