[01] Barthelemy M. Senou, National School of Applied Economics and Management, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Republic of Benin.

The objective of this article is to explore the relationship between the teacher’s status, his extra-activities incomes, and his absenteeism. By using a Tobit specification with corner solution after taking into account the teacher’s extra activities endogeneity, we estimated a primary teacher’s absenteeism model in Republic of Benin with PASEC-CONFEMEN 2005 data. The results highlight that, in Republic of Benin’s primaries schools, permanent status favor the teacher’s absenteeism than contractual status, and there is a negative correlation between teacher’s extra-activities incomes and his absenteeism frequency. Such results contradicts Allen (1981)’s theoretical model. Our results also show that teacher’s income appears as a transmission bridge of his statute’s effect on his absenteeism. Those results provide ways that shall be explored to reduce teacher’s absenteeism, which cost may be revealed of being Important for the efficiency for Republic of Benin educational system.

Absenteeism, Income, Efficiency, Contractual, Permanent

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