I am considering as research an estimate of the equilibrium between supply and demand of pedagogical training, considering how the government makes a decision to offer (or not) pedagogical training to teachers, and, concomitantly, how is the decision making of teachers in participate (or not) in pedagogical training. I thought about doing this using game theory, but I'm not sure what kind of model I should use, or what I should consider to determine that model. Has anyone worked with something similar and could give me any suggestions?
Dear Ms. Oliveira!
You hit an essential point. May I argue that an ideal model you refer to above is one that can be adjusted to emerging needs (hereby I claim that the option taken is a case- and context dependent one):
1) Burgos, Daniel, Tlili, Ahmed, Tabacco, Anita (Eds.) (2021). Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context - COVID-19 as an Opportunity for Global Learning, eBook ISBN 978-981-15-7869-4, DOI10.1007/978-981-15-7869-4, Available at:
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811578687
2) A case study: Andrea Appolloni et al. (2021). Distance Learning as a Resilience Strategy during Covid-19: An Analysis of the Italian Context, Sustainability 2021, 13(3), 1388; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031388, Open access: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/3/1388
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
Simon Stephens, very interesting approach, this could be used to construct the teachers behavior. But to work with the interaction between government e teachers behavior I would still need a proper model. I'll look for research that made a link between game theory and economic behavior, maybe I get some ideas.
Dear Carmem Fruhauf de Oliveira,
Your research idea is very interesting. I am sharing my thoughts on it. As mentioned in your question, I consider a game between the government and a potential teacher and it proceeds as follows.
Suppose the government arranges for training and the teachers decide to participate. Now the government must choose the amount of investment. This will create a level of teaching skill which, along with teacher's effort, will become input to produce a particular quality of a good, say 'teaching'. This good will have public good characteristics for the students. On the other hand, a teacher will get a fixed income but only after completion of the training period i.e. in future period. So he will discount his future utility to obtain utility in the present period. But if he does not participate in training, he can still get a job (may be as a contractual teacher) instantaneously but at a lower salary and will produce a low quality public good.
If the government does not invest in training then it will spend that amount in some other development projects which will yield some level of social benefits. In that situation, if a teacher opts for teaching job he will get a lower salary (compared to what he would be getting as a trained teacher) and will produce an inferior quality of the public good (teaching service).
The government, being a social planner, will take decision through maximizing social welfare which will include the payoffs of all the agents, whereas, a teacher will decide by maximizing his own utility.
This is merely a draft of what I thought. You can build a model considering suitable functions and solve it.
With regards,
Tilak Sanyal
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