ABSTRACT In this study, we test how the level of relative teacher wages affects educational outcomes. Russia provides a unique setting for testing this relationship given its high regional heterogeneity. We use two measures of educational outcomes at different levels of the school system. Our results show that the level of relative teacher wages has a significant positive effect on both test scores. Institutional reforms in teacher wage setting in Russia further allow us to estimate an instrumental variable model and difference-in-difference model, which confirm the robustness of our main result. We also provide some evidence on the possible channels of this effect.

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教师工资和教育成果：来自俄罗斯学校系统的证据

摘要在这项研究中，我们测试了教师相对工资水平如何影响教育成果。鉴于其高度的区域异质性，俄罗斯为检验这种关系提供了独特的环境。我们在学校系统的不同级别使用两种衡量教育成果的方法。我们的结果表明，相对教师工资水平对两个测试成绩均具有显着的积极影响。俄罗斯教师工资设置的制度改革进一步使我们能够估计工具变量模型和差异模型，这证实了我们主要结果的稳健性。我们还提供了有关此效应可能途径的一些证据。