Determinants of teacher absences in public schools: the case of São Paulo
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-41615136ptlhKeywords:
Absenteeism, Teacher attendance, Teacher absenceAbstract
This is the first article in the Brazilian literature that analyzes the determinants of teacher’s absenteeism. We use administrative information from São Paulo Education Office, School Census and SARESP 2007 and estimate a counting model that relates teacher’s absences to their attributes, as well school and students’ characteristics. In this year, 71% of the professionals were absent at least once to work and 26 school days were lost in the median institution. The results show that absences are associated with health problems, the cost of opportunity and the chances of being punished. School units with poorer students and working conditions suffer more from absences. There is evidence that the institutional environment affects the decision to be absent. Heterogeneous effects show that policies to reduce absenteeism should consider the school and teachers’ profile.
Downloads
References
Banerjee, Abhijit, e E. Duflo. 2006. “Addressing Absence.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(1): 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1257/089533006776526139.
Banerjee, Ritwik, Elizabeth M. King, Peter F. Orazem, e Elizabeth M. Paterno. 2012. “Student and teacher attendance: The role of shared goods in reducing absenteeism.” Economics of Education Review 31(5): 563-574.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.04.002.
Barros, Ricardo. P., Mirela Carvalho, Samuel Franco, e Andressa Rosalém. 2012. “Impacto do Projeto Jovem de Futuro.” Estudos em Avaliação Educacional 23(51): 214-226. https://doi.org/10.18222/eae235120121959.
Beg, Sabrin, Adrienne M. Lucas, Waqas Halim e Umar Saif. Beyond the Basics: Improving Post-Primary Content Delivery through Classroom Technology. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020.
Cabral, Grace. G. 2019. “Condições de trabalho, saúde e adoecimento docente: presenteísmo e absenteísmo em escolas de ensino médio na região central de Rio Branco-AC”. Tecnia: Revista de Educação, Ciências e Tecnologia do IFG 4(2): 24-43. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-4440.
Cameron, Adrian C., e Pravin K. Trivedi. 2009. Microeconometrics Using Stata. College Station: Stata Press.
Capitan, James H. Teacher Absenteeism. A Study of the Ohio Association of School Personnel Administrators. Overland Park: American Association of School Personnel Administrators, 1980.
Chadwick-Jones, John. K., Nigel Nicholson e Colin Brown. 1982. Social Psychology of Absenteeism. New York: Praeger Publishers.
Chaudhury, Nazmul, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan e F. Halsey Rogers. 2006. “Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(1): 91-116. https://10.1257/089533006776526058.
Clotfelter, Charles. T., Helen F. Ladd, e Jacob L. Vigdor. 2009. “Are teacher absences worth worrying about in the U.S.?” Education Finance and Policy 4(2): 115-149. https:doi.org/10.1162/edfp.2009.4.2.115.
Dalago, Irazilda. B. 2019. “Programa de atenção à saúde e ao trabalho do professor municipal de Paranaguá: um estudo de caso”. Dissertação, Universidade Federal do Paraná.
Dee, Thomas, S., e James Wyckoff. 2015. “Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT.” J. Pol. Anal. Manage. 34:267-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.21818.
Dhaliwal. Iqbal e Rema Hanna. 2017. “The devil is in the details: The successes and limitations of bureacratic reform in India”. Journal of Development Economics 124: 1-21. https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.08.008.
Duflo, Annie, Jessica Kiessel, e Adrienne Lucas. External Validity: Four Models of Improving Student Achievement. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020.
Duflo, Ester, Rema Hanna e Stephen P. Ryan. 2012. “Incentives work: getting teachers to come to school”. American Economic Review 104(4): 1241-78. https://doi.org/ 10.1257/aer.102.4.1241.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Randy A. Ehrenberg, Daniel I. Reese e Eric L. Ehrenberg. 1991. “School district leave policies, teacher absenteeism and student achievement”. Journal of Human Resources 26(1): 72-105. https://doi.org/10.2307/145717.
Fryer, Roland. 2013. “Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools”. Journal of Labor Economics 31(2): 373-407. https:// doi.org/10.1086/667757.
Gasparini, Sandra M., Sandhi M. Barreto e Ada A. Assunção. 2005. “O professor, as condições de trabalho e os efeitos sobre sua saúde”. Educação e Pesquisa 31(2): 189-199. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022005000200003.
Hawkins, Amber, Jim Dorward e Geoffrey G. Smith. 2000. “Substitute teacher availability, pay, and influence on teacher professional development: A national survey”. Spectrum 18(3): 40-46. Disponível em: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ14551. Acesso em 11/2020.
Henderson, Elizabeth, Nancy Protheroe e Stephanie Porch. 2002. Developing an effective substitute teacher program. Arlington, VA.: Educational Research Service.
Hill, T. Susan. 1982. “You can’t afford for teachers to be out, so take these steps to stop absenteeism”. Updating School Board Policies 13(3): 1-4. Disponível em http://eric.ed.gov/id=ED14233. Acesso em 11/2020.
Imants, Jeroen, e Ad van Zoelen. 1995. “Teachers’ sickness absence in primary schools, school climate and teachers’
sense of efficacy”. School Organization 15: 77-86. https:// doi.org/10.1080/0260136950150109.
Jacob, Brian A. 2011. “Do principals fire the worst teachers?” Educacional Evaluation and Policy Analysis 33(4): 403-434. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373711414704.
Medeiros, Adriane. M. e Marcel T. Vieira. 2019. “Ausência ao trabalho por distúrbio vocal de professores da Educação Básica no Brasil”. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 35(1): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00171717.
Miller, Raegen. T.,Richard. J. Murnane, e John B. Willett. 2008. “Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement?
Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District”. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis 30(2): 181-200. https://doi.org /10.3102/0162373708318019.
Muralidharan, Karthik, e Venkatesh Sundararaman. Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India. Cambridge: National Bureau of economic Research, 2013.
Muralidharan, Karthik, Jishnu Das, Alaka Holla e Aakash Mohpal. 2017. “The fiscal cost of weak governance: evidence from teacher absence in India”. Journal of Public Economics 145: 116-135. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.11.005.
Nascimento, Cawana. S., Grace G. Cabral e Paulo R. L. Mendes. 2019. “Trabalho docente no ensino médio e suas
implicações na saúde do professor”. Análise crítica das ciências da saúde 2: 114-124. https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.385192305.
Nechas, Eillen. 1989. “Is it catching?” Teacher Magazine, December 1, 1989. Disponível em http://www.edweek.org/education/is-it-catching/1989/12. Acesso: 04/2020.
Ost, Ben., e Jeffrey C. Schiman. 2017. “Workload and teacher absence”. Economics of Education Review 57:20-30. https://doi.org /10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.01.002.
Pitkof, Evan. 1993. “Teacher absenteeism: What administrators can do”. NASSP Bulletin 77(551): 39- 45. https://doi.org/10.1177/019263659307755106.
Possagno, Rildo. 2019. “A síndrome de Bornout em professores: uma revisão narrativa”. Dissertação, Universidade Federal do Paraná.
Paes Filho, Fabio, Joyce Souza, e Luiza Rossi-Barbosa. 2020. “Prevalência do absenteísmo por distúrbios vocais entre professores”. Bionorte 9(1):20-5.
Ree, Joppe de, Karthik Muralidharan, Menno Pradhan e Halsey Rogers. 2015. Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015.
Rosenberg, Gail G., Patricia Blake-Rahter, Judy Heavner, Linda Allen, Beatrice M. Redmond, Janet Phillips e Kathy Stigers. 1999. “Improving Classroom Acoustics (ICA): A Three-Year FM Sound Field Classroom Amplification Study”. Journal of Educational Audiology 7:8–28. Disponível em: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED463640. Acesso: 11/11/2020.
Rundall, Richard A. 1986. “Continuity in Subbing: Problems and Solutions”. Clearing House 59(5):240. https://doi.org/10.1080/00098655.1986.9955654.
São Paulo. 1963. Decreto nº 42.850, 30 de dezembro de 1963. Regulamenta as disposições legais vigentes relativas aos servidores públicos civis. Diário Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo, SP, p. 6, 31 dez. 1963.
São Paulo. 1968. Lei nº 10.261, 28 de outubro de 1968. Dispõe sobre o Estatuto dos Funcionários Públicos Civis do Estado. Diário Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo, SP, p. 2, 29 out. 1968.
São Paulo. 1974. Lei n. 500, de 13 de novembro de 1974. Institui o regime jurídico dos servidores admitidos em caráter temporário. Diário Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo, SP, p. 3, 14 nov. 1974.
São Paulo. 1985. Lei Complementar nº 444, de 27 de dezembro de 1985. Dispõe sobre o Estatuto do Magistério Paulista. Diário Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo, SP, p. 1, 28 dez. 1985.
São Paulo. 2007. Decreto nº 52.054 de 14 de agosto de 2007. Dispõe sobre o horário de trabalho e registro de ponto dos servidores públicos estaduais da Administração Direta. Diário Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo, SP, p. 1, 15 ago. 2007.
Van Dick, Rolf, e Ulrich Wagner. 2001. “Stress and strain in teaching: a structural equation approach”. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 71: 243-259. https:// doi.org/10.1348/000709901158505
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Priscilla Albuquerque Tavares
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
By submitting an article, the author authorizes its publication and attests that it has not been submitted to any other journal. The original article is considered final. Articles selected for publication are proofread for grammatical and orthographic errors. The journal does not pay rights for published articles. The Institute of Economic Research from the School of Economics, Business and Accounting of the University of São Paulo (Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo) owns the journal's copyright.
Atualizado em 14/08/2025