O salário dos professores importa? Uma avaliação de impacto sobre o desempenho dos estudantes mineiros na Prova Brasil

Abstract

Considering the many positive effects of education on a country's socioeconomic development and the many factors that can affect the quality of student learning, this paper focuses on the role of teachers and a key variable for attracting and retaining good professionals in the teaching career: the salaries. It uses panel data, considering the years of 2011, 2013 and 2015, with the results of students from the 5th grade of elementary school in Minas Gerais in Prova Brasil, and information on teacher’s remuneration, from RAIS, to make estimations of Ordinary Least Squares models and Fixed Effects Models. The results found in OLS models indicate that higher salaries results in higher grades in Matematic’s test of Prova Brasil. With the estimation using Fixed Effects, this variable is not statistical significant to explain student’s performance.