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Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers 1957-1992

Corcoran, Sean P.; Evans, William N.; Schwab, Robert M. - 2021

School officials and policy makers have grown increasingly concerned about their ability to attract and retain talented teachers. A number of authors have shown that in recent years the brightest students at least those with the highest verbal and math scores on standardized tests are less...

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Contract Teachers : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013

The large-scale expansion of primary schooling in developing countries has led to the increasing use of non-civil-service contract teachers who are hired locally by the school, are not professionally trained, have fixed-term renewable contracts, and are paid much lower salaries than regular...

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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2009

Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education outcomes in schools, but the theoretical predictions regarding its effectiveness are ambiguous and the empirical evidence to date is limited and mixed. We present results from a randomized evaluation of a...

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The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance : Evidence from Teacher Absence in India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2014

We construct a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India and find that the … to be high, with 23.6 percent of teachers in public schools across rural India being absent during unannounced visits to … in India is around $1.5 billion per year, and that investing in better governance by hiring more inspectors to increase …

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - 2021

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the …

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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries : The Role of Female Teachers

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013

Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female...

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Personnel Management and School Productivity : Evidence from India

Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela - 2023

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …

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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

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The Skills to Pay the Bills : Returns to On-the-Job Soft Skills Training

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018

garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading …

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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...

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