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While use of contract teachers provides a low-cost way to increase teacher numbers, it raises the quality concern that these less trained teachers may be less effective. We estimate the causal contract-teacher effect on student achievement using school fixed effects and value-added models of the...
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Some education policymakers focus on bringing down pupil–teacher ratios. Others argue that resources will have limited impact without systematic reforms to education governance, teacher incentives, and pedagogy. We examine a program under which school committees at randomly selected Kenyan...
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Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …
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This paper examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India … has important policy implications for pupil teacher ratios (PTRs) and thus for teacher appointments in India, based on … considerations of cost-effectiveness. When generalised, our findings suggest that India experienced a value-subtraction from spending …
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-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within …
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Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …
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This paper examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India … has important policy implications for pupil teacher ratios (PTRs) and thus for teacher appointments in India, based on … considerations of cost-effectiveness. When generalised, our findings suggest that India experienced a value-subtraction from spending …
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-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within … achievement. -- Teacher unions ; teacher salaries ; student achievement ; productivity ; India …
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, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …' grade progression. -- early childhood development ; less developed country ; India ; schooling …
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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