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The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback to Teachers on Student Learning : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - 2010

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a programme that provided low-stakes diagnostic tests and feedback to teachers, and low-stakes monitoring of classroom processes across a representative set of schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We find teachers in treatment schools...

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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - 2011

We present results from a randomized evaluation of a teacher performance pay program implemented across a large representative sample of government-run rural primary schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. At the end of 2 years of the program, students in incentive schools performed...

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Teacher Opinions on Performance Pay : Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - 2011

The practical viability of performance-based pay programs for teachers depends critically on the extent of support the idea will receive from teachers. We present evidence on teacher opinions with regard to performance-based pay from teacher interviews conducted in the context of an experimental...

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School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

Das, Jishnu; Dercon, Stefan; Habyarimana, James Paul - 2013

responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student test scores are higher when schools …

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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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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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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice : Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...

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Cycling to School : Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...

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School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

Das, Jishnu - 2011

school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …

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