Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263711 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9781
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and country-level measures of teacher subject knowledge and didactic skills in reading and math. Exploiting variation between subjects in a student fixed-effects model, we find that teacher subject knowledge has a large positive effect on student achievement, whereas the effect of didactic skills is comparatively small and not statistically significant at conventional levels. Together, the two dimensions of teacher quality account for 36 percent of the variation in average student achievement across countries.
Subjects: 
international learning gaps
teacher quality
Sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
I21
I25
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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