The fiscal cost of weak governance: Evidence from teacher absence in India

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• 作者：Karthik Muralidharan^a ; ^{kamurali@ucsd.edu} ; Jishnu Das^b ; ^{jdas1@worldbank.org} ; Alaka Holla^b ; ^{aholla@worldbank.org} ; Aakash Mohpal^c ; ^{amohpal@umich.edu}
• 关键词：H4 ; H52 ; I21 ; M54 ; O15
• 刊名：Journal of Public Economics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：145
• 期：Complete
• 页码：116-135
• 全文大小：416 K
• 卷排序：145

文摘

A nationwide representative sample of public schools in rural India found teacher absence rate of 23.6%. Increases in school monitoring were strongly correlated with reductions in teacher absence rates. Investing in reducing teacher absence through better monitoring could be over ten times more cost effective at reducing the effective student teacher ratio (net of teacher absence) than investing in hiring more teachers. The marginal returns to inefficiency reduction are likely to be considerably higher than the returns to augmenting school inputs in a “business as usual” manner.