This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First … with both independent measures of teaching practice, as well as school productivity measured by student value added. Fourth …, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design …In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and …, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject to liquidity and credit constraints that is estimated using data …

We use a panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study "learning loss" after COVID …-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months … after school closures) displayed learning deficits of ∼0.7σ in math and 0.34σ in language compared to identically …

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First … with both independent measures of teaching practice, as well as school productivity measured by student value added. Fourth …, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …