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Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020

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 Service Delivery using Phone-Based Monitoring

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2018

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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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020

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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Personnel Management and School Productivity : Evidence from India

Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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

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General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017

the implementation of India's employment guarantee. Without changing government expenditure, this reform raised low …

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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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Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers : Part I

Arcidiacono, Peter; Muralidharan, Karthik; Shim, Eun-young - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Ganimian, Alejandro J.; Muralidharan, Karthik; Walters, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

Das, Jishnu - 2015

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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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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