Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261278 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Research Report No. 2022-1
Publisher: 
The University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics, London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers' careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learningby- Doing (LBD) and experimental variation from Glewwe et al. (2010), a teacher incentive pay experiment in Kenya, to discern the presence and relative importance of these forces. The identified set for the OJT and LBD components has a closed-form solution, which depends on experimentally estimated average treatment effects. The results provide evidence of an LBD component, as well as an informative upper bound on the OJT component.
Subjects: 
human capital
teacher quality
on-the-job training
learning-by-doing
partial identification
JEL: 
I2
I28
J2
J24
J45
C1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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