The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance : Evidence from Teacher Absence in India

The relative return to strategies that augment inputs versus those that reduce inefficiencies remains a key open question for education policy in low-income countries. Using a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India, we show that the large public investme...

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Main Authors: Muralidharan, Karthik, Das, Jishnu, Holla, Alaka, Mohpal, Aakash
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29313