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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123987
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What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes” defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...
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The new empirical economics of management
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …
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Do private equity owned firms have better management practices?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2009
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms … owners, this difference is not statistically significant. Looking at management practices in detail we find that Private … Equity-owned firms have strong people management practices (hiring, firing, pay and promotions) but even stronger operations …
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The new empirical economics of management
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357243