Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should … paper provides causal evidence that this might result from non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers. Cross … extent than in schools where only parents are nudged. Monitoring backfires precisely for teachers who were most motivated at …

Community-based accountability interventions have shown potential to improve delivery of public services, but there is … study the effectiveness of social accountability interventions implemented by the Indian state government of Uttar Pradesh … randomized trial design, we investigate two key mechanisms through which accountability interventions are hypothesized to improve …

Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should … paper provides causal evidence that this might result from non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers. Cross … extent than in schools where only parents are nudged. Monitoring backfires precisely for teachers who were most motivated at …