This thesis brings three empirical exercises on human resources issues in Brazilian public schools, taking advantage of a large policy implemented in São Paulo state school system. This policy raises the wages for teachers working in poor urban schools and its assignment, based on an arbitrary cutoff on a socioeconomic index, allows the identification of causal impacts. In sum, the three papers point that allowances policies are able to, in fact, maintain teachers in disadvantaged schools and this effect, in turn, improves students’ academic performance. Besides, we also find that this policy also reduces teacher absenteeism. However, as a consequence of the policy design, there are no evidence that this allowance improves the profile of te...
The goal of this article is to present an analysis of the resources allocated to education concernin...
In the Brazilian public education system, teachers ’ wages are determined by the state or municipali...
Melhorar a qualidade da educação no Brasil faz parte dos objetivos das políticas governamentais em t...
The article summarizes the history and current status of state government accountability policies th...
Orientador: Aparecida Neri de SouzaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Facul...
There is a generalized perception that brazilian public teachers are underpaid. Given the teachers’ ...
The debates on public policies for education have a large space on the world stage since the develop...
This study has as its objective the situation of the teaching of basic public education systems of s...
We evaluate the effect of teachers’ wages on pupils’ achievement in a developing country (Brazil), u...
This article presents the description and analysis of the education policies developed in Minas Gera...
Sprietsma, M. & D. Waltenberg, F. (2005). The effect of teachers' wages on student achievement: evid...
De acordo com a literatura empírica, há fortes evidências de que, após o controle de características...
This thesis is composed by three independent essays in economics of education, which aim to assess t...
Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Economia Aplicada. Departamento de Ci?ncias Econ?micas e Gerenciais, In...
Relating teacher payment to pupils’ standardized test scores is spreading in Brazil. Such policies d...
The goal of this article is to present an analysis of the resources allocated to education concernin...
In the Brazilian public education system, teachers ’ wages are determined by the state or municipali...
Melhorar a qualidade da educação no Brasil faz parte dos objetivos das políticas governamentais em t...
The article summarizes the history and current status of state government accountability policies th...
Orientador: Aparecida Neri de SouzaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Facul...
There is a generalized perception that brazilian public teachers are underpaid. Given the teachers’ ...
The debates on public policies for education have a large space on the world stage since the develop...
This study has as its objective the situation of the teaching of basic public education systems of s...
We evaluate the effect of teachers’ wages on pupils’ achievement in a developing country (Brazil), u...
This article presents the description and analysis of the education policies developed in Minas Gera...
Sprietsma, M. & D. Waltenberg, F. (2005). The effect of teachers' wages on student achievement: evid...
De acordo com a literatura empírica, há fortes evidências de que, após o controle de características...
This thesis is composed by three independent essays in economics of education, which aim to assess t...
Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Economia Aplicada. Departamento de Ci?ncias Econ?micas e Gerenciais, In...
Relating teacher payment to pupils’ standardized test scores is spreading in Brazil. Such policies d...
The goal of this article is to present an analysis of the resources allocated to education concernin...
In the Brazilian public education system, teachers ’ wages are determined by the state or municipali...
Melhorar a qualidade da educação no Brasil faz parte dos objetivos das políticas governamentais em t...