Comprehensive Empirical Study of the Influence of Working Environment on Teaching Choice and Teacher Supply

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02422
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09010:Education-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Hashino Akihiro 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 准教授 (60611184)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 教員政策 / 教員供給 / 教職選択 / 労働環境

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to evaluate the impact of the working conditions of the teaching profession, such as salary level, student-teacher ratio, working hours, and scope of teacher work, on the quantity and quality of teacher supply and to obtain guidelines for future policy choices in teacher policy.
Empirical analyses were conducted on the policy factors that encourage the best in both cognitive and non-cognitive abilities to enter the teaching profession. The results show that improvements in salary levels and working hours lead to a certain degree of increase in the desire to teach among young people with high levels of both cognitive and non-cognitive skills. In analyzing the consequences of the work environment, we also extended and applied a novel identification strategy in causal inference.

Free Research Field

教育行政学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義としては以下の2点が挙げられる。第1に実質的な面での意義として、労働条件に関わる政策的要因が教職選択に及ぼす影響を明らかにした点、また潜在的教職参入者のセグメント間の異質性に着目し、教員人材の量的・質的確保に関する政策的含意を得た点がある。
第2に方法的な面での意義として、従来の識別戦略が適用できないデータにおいても適用可能な統計的因果推論の手法について検討・拡張した上で、教員政策および教員の労働環境に関する実証分析に適用し、新たな知見を得た点がある。