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students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design …
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the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself …
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Improving "last-mile" public-service delivery is a recurring challenge in developing countries. Could the widespread adoption of mobile phones provide a scalable, cost-effective means for improvement? We use a large-scale experiment to evaluate the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program...
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We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global "best practices" including comprehensive assessments, detailed school...
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This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …
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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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worker focused on pre-school education (for children aged 3-5) in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India …
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the implementation of India's employment guarantee. Without changing government expenditure, this reform raised low …
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learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher …
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We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...
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