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Shedding light on the link between teachers’ quality and students’ academic achievement

In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 12

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  • Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo

    (Universidad de Malaga)

  • Oscar David Marcenaro Gutierrez

    (Universidad de Málaga)

Abstract

Providing students with a proper education level is a desirable objective in all societies. This becomes a main priority when analysing low developed countries, as the particular circumstances of these countries make them a particularly complex case study. This research intends to evaluate the potential effect of teachers’ subject knowledge on students’ academic achievement, using data for three Sub-Saharan countries. In order to perform this analysis, we employ a student fixed effects approach, thanks to the heterogeneity presented by teachers’ subject knowledge within-students between-subjects. Our main results have shown that teachers’ subject knowledge does not seem to affect students’ academic achievement in these countries, and many robustness checks have confirmed these results. This lack of effect and the reduced knowledge that teachers of these countries present –specially, in mathematics– may indicate that policy objectives have to be aimed firstly at increasing teachers’ knowledge, so that these teachers can raise the education level of students in the country and, hence, to the extent that education is related to economic growth, slow down the vicious cycle of poverty.

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  • Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo & Oscar David Marcenaro Gutierrez, 2017. "Shedding light on the link between teachers’ quality and students’ academic achievement," Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 12, in: Juan Cándido Gómez Gallego & María Concepción Pérez Cárceles & Laura Nieto Torrejón (ed.), Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 12, edition 1, volume 12, chapter 17, pages 355-372, Asociación de Economía de la Educación.
  • Handle: RePEc:aec:ieed12:12-17
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    Keywords

    students’ academic achievement; teachers’ subject knowledge; student fixed effects; Sub-Saharan African countries;
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    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models

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