Abstract:

Rural-oriented normal students are an important source of rural teachers. In recent years, with the expansion of the oriented normal student training scale, the problem of normal students’ breach of contract has emerged, disrupting the supplementary plan of rural teachers and affecting the policy effectiveness. Based on the policy texts of rural-oriented normal students in 25 provinces and field survey data in three provinces (cities), it is found that the current policy forms a contractual relationship in the form of “pre-compensation + constraint”, emphasizing the responsibilities and obligations of normal students, but lacking continuous incentives for pre-service and in-service normal students, which may easily lead to normal students’ breach of contract. In order to reduce the default rate, based on the principle of incentive compatibility, the design of “post-incentive + constraint” should be strengthened to bridge the gap between individual expectations and policy objectives, and to avoid insufficient policy “post-incentives”.

Key words: rural teachers, rural-oriented normal students, incentive compatibility, mechanism design