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Lazareva, Olga; Zakharov, Andrei – Education Economics, 2020
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…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Outcomes of Education, Scores, Educational Change
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Dardanoni, Valentino; Modica, Salvatore; Pennisi, Aline – Education Economics, 2011
We study how the relationship between students' cognitive ability and their school grades depends on institutional contexts. In a simple abstract model, we show that unless competence standards are set at above-school level or the variation of competence across schools is low, students' competence valuation will be heterogeneous, with weaker…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation