Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - 2012
We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short …-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as … teachers operating under central government civil-service institutions but were absent one day per week less and their students …