Decentralization, teacher quality and educational attainment evidence from OECD countries
- Autores: Paula Salinas
- Localización: XXI Encuentro Economía Pública, 2014, pág. 82
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Studies that empirically analyze the effects of education decentralization have focused on the analysis of the effects on educational outcomes. This study goes deeply into this question, by analyzing the effects of decentralization on teachers� quality and to which extent these effects explain decentralization effects on educational attainment. A cross-national database for 33 OECD countries is used in the analysis, with information for 10.872 schools and 294.155 students. The results show that the effects of decentralization on teacher quality are statistically and quantitatively significant. In addition, the indirect effects through teacher quality account for a significant part of the effect of decentralization on educational attainment, which range from a 7 to a 17 percent depending on the subject
