Browsing by Author "Muralidharan, Karthik"

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    • Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India 

      Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, Alejandro J. (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017-07)
      The authors present experimental evidence on the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes. The setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided ...

    • Provider absence in schools and health clinics 

      Chaudhury, Nazmul; Hammer, Jeffrey; Kremer, Michael; Muralidharan, Karthik; Rogers, F. Halsey (Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, HEC Montreal, 2004)
      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 ...

    • Why Are Teachers Absent? Probing Service Delivery in Peruvian Primary Schools 

      Alcázar, Lorena; Halsey Rogers, F; Chaudhury, Nazmul; Hammer, Jeffrey; Kremer, Michael; Muralidharan, Karthik (Elsevier, 2006)
      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 ...