TY  - JOUR
KW  - Absence
KW  -  Substitutability
KW  -  Productivity
KW  -  Teachers
N2  - Teacher absence is a widespread phenomenon, but little is known about its effects on teacher productivity and schools? strategies to cope with this temporary disruptive event through substitute teachers. Using a unique French administrative dataset matching, for each absence spell, each missing secondary school teacher to her substitute teacher, I find that, on average, teacher absence reduces pupil test scores by around 0.40% of a standard deviation. On average, substitute teachers are unable to mitigate this negative effect. However, there is substantial heterogeneity depending on the type of substitute teacher: certified substitute teachers are able to compensate for up to 25% of this negative impact, while non-certified substitute teachers have no statistically significant effect.
A1  - Benhenda, A
AV  - public
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102167
Y1  - 2022/06//
ID  - discovery10149567
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
TI  - Absence, substitutability and productivity: Evidence from teachers
VL  - 76
JF  - Labour Economics
PB  - Elsevier BV
ER  -