Does Increased Government Spending on Additional Teachers Improve Education Quality?

Mumbi E. Kimani ()
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Mumbi E. Kimani: University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg

A chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, 2022, pp 411-435 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Teacher’s salaries make up a significant portion of government spending on education in most of sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the relationship between increased spending on additional teachers and education quality, as measured, respectively, by lower pupil-teacher ratios and educational attainment using South Africa as a case study. In the apartheid era, most Black South Africans were disadvantaged and their schools were poorly resourced. To deal with this issue, post-apartheid governments have, among other things, increased their spending on basic education, mainly through increases in government-employed teachers to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio. Using a reduced form production function approach, we apply a partial proportional odds model to identify heterogeneous effects of the pupil-teacher ratio at different levels of education.

Keywords: Education quality; Pupil-teacher ratio; Spending; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75556-0_15

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