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Does Increased Government Spending on Additional Teachers Improve Education Quality?

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors

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  • Mumbi E. Kimani

    (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg
    Pennsylvania State University)

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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.

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  • Mumbi E. Kimani, 2022. "Does Increased Government Spending on Additional Teachers Improve Education Quality?," Springer Books, in: Evelyn F. Wamboye & Bichaka Fayissa (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, pages 411-435, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-75556-0_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75556-0_15
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