The Economics of Education, 2nd Edition

Chapter 27

Teachers in developing countries

Paul Glewwe ^a , Rongjia Shen ^a , Bixuan Sun ^a , and Suzanne Wisniewski ^{b       a} Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States      ^b University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, United States

Abstract

This chapter reviews rigorous high-quality evaluations of teaching and teacher interventions in developing countries. Teachers can have large impacts on student learning in both developed and developing countries (see Azam & Kingdon, 2015, and the references therein). This review focuses on three main questions: (1) What teaching, teacher and pedagogical policies increase students' time spent in school, as measured by student enrollment, attendance, dropout ...