Better Teachers, Better Results? Evidence from Rural Pakistan

Marine de Talancé ()
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Marine de Talancé: PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine, LEDa, IRD, UMR DIAL

No DT/2015/21, Working Papers from DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation)

Abstract: (english) Using a gain model with three different levels of fixed effects, this paper empirically estimates the impacts of teachers on students' achievement in three districts in the rural province of Punjab in Pakistan. The model-based results suggest that teachers' factors do explain students' achievement. Increasing teachers' wages could improve schooling quality along with recruiting local teachers with non-permanent contracts. Recruiting local teachers has an important positive impact on students' achievement especially for girls. It could therefore reduce gender based inequalities of academic achievement. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that policy reforms concerning training programs and re-thinking wage policies should be on the agenda of future research.

Keywords: Education; Pakistan; Primary Schooling; Punjab; Quality; Skills; Teachers; Temporary contract; Qualite de l'education; Pakistan; Enseignement primaire; Connaissances cognitives; Professeurs; Contrat temporaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 86 pages
Date: 2015-12
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