%0 Conference Paper %1 Dolton2010 %A Dolton, Peter %A Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar %B European Association of Labour Economists %C London %D 2010 %K attainment education international pdf teacherpay prj-education %T If You Pay Peanuts do You Get Monkeys? A Cross Country Analysis of Teacher Pay and Pupil Performance %U http://www.eale.nl/Conference2010/Programme/PaperscontributedsessionsE/add127730_IUqPf2MXXp.pdf %X Why are teachers paid up to four times as much in some countries compared to others and does it matter? Specifically, is the quality of teachers likely to be higher if they are paid higher up the income distribution in their own country, and are pupil outcomes influenced by how well their teachers are paid? If 'the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers' then teacher quality and its relationship to pupil performance is at the very heart of the debate about educational policy. In this sense each country will get the teachers is deserves by choosing to pay teachers at a given point in the income distribution of the country they will get the requisite quality of teacher. The inherent problem for this debate is that teacher quality is extremely difficult to measure. Our standpoint is that the role of teacher quality in the determination of pupil outcomes can be deduced by using relative pay and comparing teachers remuneration across countries. Indeed it is this variability of the relative position in different countries which makes this investigation possible as it is not feasible to retrieve the relationship between teacher quality (salary) and pupil outcomes within a given country. This paper therefore considers the determinants of teacher’s salaries across countries and examines the relationship between the real (and relative) level of teacher remuneration and the (internationally) comparable measured performance of secondary school pupils. We use aggregate panel data on 39 countries published by the OECD to model this association. The results confirm the importance of market supply forces in the determination of teacher pay and suggest that relative (and absolute levels) of teacher salaries exert a powerful influence on pupil performance.

@inproceedings{Dolton2010, abstract = {Why are teachers paid up to four times as much in some countries compared to others and does it matter? Specifically, is the quality of teachers likely to be higher if they are paid higher up the income distribution in their own country, and are pupil outcomes influenced by how well their teachers are paid? If 'the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers' then teacher quality and its relationship to pupil performance is at the very heart of the debate about educational policy. In this sense each country will get the teachers is deserves by choosing to pay teachers at a given point in the income distribution of the country they will get the requisite quality of teacher. The inherent problem for this debate is that teacher quality is extremely difficult to measure. Our standpoint is that the role of teacher quality in the determination of pupil outcomes can be deduced by using relative pay and comparing teachers remuneration across countries. Indeed it is this variability of the relative position in different countries which makes this investigation possible as it is not feasible to retrieve the relationship between teacher quality (salary) and pupil outcomes within a given country. This paper therefore considers the determinants of teacher’s salaries across countries and examines the relationship between the real (and relative) level of teacher remuneration and the (internationally) comparable measured performance of secondary school pupils. We use aggregate panel data on 39 countries published by the OECD to model this association. The results confirm the importance of market supply forces in the determination of teacher pay and suggest that relative (and absolute levels) of teacher salaries exert a powerful influence on pupil performance. }, added-at = {2010-08-10T21:11:30.000+0200}, address = {London}, author = {Dolton, Peter and Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ab10530ccaf895572c6dfa6db6315076/nicoj}, booktitle = {European Association of Labour Economists}, interhash = {7efb751f3a3cee670fb2f266244c4258}, intrahash = {ab10530ccaf895572c6dfa6db6315076}, keywords = {attainment education international pdf teacherpay prj-education}, timestamp = {2012-08-06T22:06:35.000+0200}, title = {If You Pay Peanuts do You Get Monkeys? A Cross Country Analysis of Teacher Pay and Pupil Performance }, url = {http://www.eale.nl/Conference2010/Programme/PaperscontributedsessionsE/add127730_IUqPf2MXXp.pdf}, year = 2010 }