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Karthik Muralidharan

Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD
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Missing in action: teacher and health worker absence in developing countries

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N Chaudhury, J Hammer, M Kremer… - The Journal of …, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made
unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India,
Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health ...
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Teacher absence in India: A snapshot

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M Kremer, N Chaudhury, FH Rogers… - Journal of the …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Twenty-five percent of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were
teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government
primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15% in Maharashtra to 42% in ...
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Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from India

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K Muralidharan… - 2009 - nber.org
Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education
outcomes in schools, but the theoretical predictions regarding its effectiveness are
ambiguous and the empirical evidence to date is limited and mixed. We present results ...
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[PDF] Teacher incentives in developing countries: Experimental evidence from India

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K Muralidharan… - Unpublished manuscript, 2006 - people.virginia.edu
Abstract: Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving
educational outcomes in schools, but the empirical evidence to date on its effectiveness is
limited and mixed. We present results from a randomized evaluation of a teacher incentive ...
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[PDF] Public and private schools in rural India

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K Muralidharan… - Harvard University, Department of …, 2006 - Citeseer
Abstract: This paper presents results from a nationally-representative survey of rural private
primary schools in India conducted in 2003. 28% of the population of rural India has access
to fee-charging private schools in the same village. Nearly 50% of the rural private schools ...
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Why are teachers absent? Probing service delivery in Peruvian primary schools

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L Alcázar, FH Rogers, N Chaudhury… - International Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
A high rate of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery of
education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been
scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project, is the first ...
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[PDF] Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India

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K Muralidharan… - UC San Diego, 2010 - nber.org
Abstract: The large-scale expansion of primary education in developing countries has led to
the increasing use of teachers on fixed-term renewable contracts who are not professionally
trained and who are paid much lower salaries than regular civil service teachers. This has ...
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[CITATION] Teacher absence and incentives in primary education: Results from a national teacher tracking survey in Ecuador

FH Rogers, J Lopez-Calix, N Chaudhury, J Hammer… - Ecuador: Creating Fiscal …, 2004
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[CITATION] Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot

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N Chaudhury, J Hammer, M Kremer… - Journal of the European …, 2005
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

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J Das, S Dercon, J Habyarimana, P Krishnan… - 2011 - nber.org
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not
account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a
dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household ...
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[PDF] Provider absence in schools and health clinics

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N Chaudhury, J Hammer, M Kremer… - … HEC Montreal, October, 2004 - dfid.gov.uk
Abstract: This paper presents comparable national estimates of provider absence at primary
schools and primary health centers in six countries. It relies on new data drawn from
nationally representative samples of facilities using a common survey instrument and ...
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[PDF] Roll call: Teacher absence in Bangladesh

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N Chaudhury, J Hammer, M Kremer… - Harvard University and …, 2004 - 94.126.106.9
Executive Summary Absence of public servants from their jobs has been long discussed as
an impediment to effective public service delivery. The policy dialogue on this issue has,
however, been hampered by the lack of rigorous empirical studies on provider absence. ...
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[CITATION] Teacher Absence, Incentives, and Service Delivery in Ecuadorian Primary Education: Results from a New National Survey

H Rogers, JR Lopez-Calix, N Cordoba… - World Bank, Washington …, 2004
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[PDF] Public-Private Partnerships for Quality Education in India

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K Muralidharan - Unpublished draft, 2006 - ccsindia.org
While the focus of education policy in developing countries such as India has largely
centered on increasing the resource base and the number of government-run schools, the
role of private fee-charging 3 schools in the primary education sector has not been ...
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[CITATION] Teacher absence and incentives in primary education

FH Rogers, J López-Calix, N Chaudury, J Hammer… - World Bank and Inter- …, 2004
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[CITATION] Teacher absence in India

N Chaudhury, J Hammer, M Kremer… - World Bank, 2004
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The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback to Teachers on Student Learning: Experimental Evidence from India*

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K Muralidharan… - The Economic Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a programme that provided low-stakes
diagnostic tests and feedback to teachers, and low-stakes monitoring of classroom
processes across a representative set of schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ...
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[PDF] Why Are Teachers Absent?

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L Alcázar, FH Rogers… - Probing Service …, 2004 - siteresources.worldbank.org
Abstract A high rate of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery
of education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been
scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project, is the first ...
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[CITATION] Teacher and Non-Teacher Inputs in the Education Production Function: Experimental Evidence from India

K Muralidharan… - 2006 - Mimeo, Harvard University
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[CITATION] Measuring and understanding teacher absence in Indonesia

FH Rogers, A Suryahadi, S Sumarto, S Usman… - World Bank, Washington …, 2004
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[CITATION] Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi country study

M Kremer, N Chaudhury, J Hammer… - 2004 - Mimeo: World Bank
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[CITATION] Public and Private Schools in India

K Muralidharan… - Harvard University, Boston, 2006
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[CITATION] Teacher absence in India.": Unpublished

M Kremer, K Muralidharan, N Chaudhury… - Harvard University, 2004
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[PDF] Teachers and Medical Worker Incentives in India

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K Muralidharan - 2006 - 94.23.146.173
While the focus of education and health policy in developing countries such as India has
largely centered on increasing the resource base and the number of government-run
schools and clinics, much less attention has been paid to the question of how efficiently ...
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[CITATION] Contract teachers: evidence from India

K Muralidharan… - … of Economics. University of California at San …, 2010
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[CITATION] Public and Private Schools in Rural India

M Kremer… - School Choice International, forthcoming, 2007
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[CITATION] 'Health Care Provider Absence in India

N Chaudhury, JS Hammer, M Kremer… - World Bank, Washington, …, 2004
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Teacher opinions on performance pay: Evidence from India

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K Muralidharan… - Economics of Education Review, 2011 - Elsevier
The practical viability of performance-based pay programs for teachers depends critically on
the extent of support the idea will receive from teachers. We present evidence on teacher
opinions with regard to performance-based pay from teacher interviews conducted in the ...
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[PDF] Assessing the Scope for Cash Transfers in lieu of the TPDS in Rural and Urban Bihar

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K Muralidharan, P Niehaus… - 2011 - econ.ucsd.edu
The Department of Economics was founded in 1964, the same year that UC San Diego
admitted its first undergraduates. The Department admitted its first Ph. D. students in 1965
and graduated its first bachelor degree students in 1968.
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[CITATION] How Does Local Food Crop Production in India Affect Local Nutritional Status?

K Muralidharan - 1998 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 44422503. How does local food crop production in India affect local nutritional
status? / (1998). Muralidharan, Karthik. Abstract. Thesis (AB, Honors in Economics)--Harvard
University, 1998.. Includes bibliographical references. Details der Publikation. ...
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PE Peterson, L Woessmann, K Muralidharan… - The Economic …, 2010 - res.org.uk
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[PDF] School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

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JDSDJ Habyarimana, P Krishnan… - 2011 - aida.econ.yale.edu
Abstract: Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically
do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We
present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and ...
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[PDF] Is There a Doctor in the House? Medical Worker Absence in India

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K Muralidharan, N Chaudhury, J Hammer… - 2011 - ws1.ad.economics.harvard.edu
Abstract The availability of medical providers, a crucial element in quality of care, depends
not only on budgeting for and filling posts but also on ensuring that providers are not
frequently absent. We present data from a nationally representative all-India survey ( ...
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[PDF] Long-Term Effects of Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

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K Muralidharan - 2011 - 130.154.3.8
Abstract: We present results from a five-year long randomized evaluation of group and
individual teacher performance pay programs implemented across a large representative
sample of government-run rural primary schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We ...
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

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K Muralidharan, J Das, S Dercon… - 2011 - … .us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not
account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. This paper
presents a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and ...
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[PDF] Economics of Education

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K Muralidharan - cesifo-group.de
Abstract: We present results from a five-year long randomized evaluation of group and
individual teacher performance pay programs implemented across a large representative
sample of government-run rural primary schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We ...
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Date posted: July 20, 2010; Last revised: July 20, 2010 Suggested Citation

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K Muralidharan… - The Economic Journal, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We present experimental evidence on the impact of a programme that provided
low-stakes diagnostic tests and feedback to teachers, and low-stakes monitoring of classroom
processes across a representative set of schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ...

Essays on the economics of education in developing countries

K Muralidharan - 2007 - gradworks.umi.com
The second essay (joint with Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, and Halsey
Rogers) studies teacher absence in India in detail. We find that 25% of teachers in government
primary schools are absent on a typical day. Absence rates vary from 15% in Maharashtra ...
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K Muralidharan… - The Economic Journal, 2010 - res.org.uk
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a programme that provided low-stakes
diagnostic tests and feedback to teachers, and low-stakes monitoring of classroom
processes across a representative set of schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ...
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