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The Social Lives of Married Women : Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Investments in Children
Kandpal, Eeshani - 2019
In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra …-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends … significant peer effects on only a few of the examined measures of women's autonomy. In contrast, peer effects exist on all …
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school and how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, correlate with...
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Using Student and Teacher Assessments to Design More Pertinent In-Service Teacher Training : The Case of Ecuador
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2019
The development of pertinent and effective in-service teacher training remains a policy challenge for many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ecuador stands out as a country in the region that has made significant investments in teacher training in the past decade. However, most...
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Teacher Professional Development Around the World : The Gap between Evidence and Practice
Popova, Anna - 2018
Teachers, like all professionals, require ongoing professional development opportunities to improve their skills. This paper provides evidence on effective professional development characteristics and how at-scale programs incorporate those characteristics. The authors propose a standard set of...
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What Teachers Believe : Mental Models About Accountability, Absenteeism, and Student Learning
Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2018
The time teachers spend teaching is low in several developing countries. However, improving teacher effort has proven difficult. Why is it so difficult to increase teacher effort? One possibility is that teachers are resistant to increasing effort because they do not believe their effort is...
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The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2019
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance : Evidence from Teacher Absence in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
The relative return to input-augmentation versus inefficiency-reduction strategies for improving education system performance is a key open question for education policy in low-income countries. Using a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India, this...
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How Much Teachers Know and How Much it Matters in Class : Analyzing Three Rounds of Subject-Specific Test Score Data of Indonesian Students and Teachers
de Ree, Joppe - 2017
Improving the quality of education is one of today's main challenges for governments in the developing world. Based on a unique matched student-to-teacher panel data set on test scores this paper presents two empirical results for Indonesia. First, through detailed inspection of teacher-level...
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When Do In-Service Teacher Training and Books Improve Student Achievement? Experimental Evidence from Mongolia
Fuje, Habtamu - 2017
This study presents evidence from a randomized control trial (RCT) in Mongolia on the impact of in-service teacher training and books, both as separate educational inputs and as a package. The study tests for the complementarity of inputs and non-linearity of returns from investment in education...
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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2017
This paper presents evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of public primary schools with the lowest mean student...
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