Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot

Kremer, Michael; Chaudhury, Nazmul; Rogers, Frances; Muralidharan, Karthik; Hammer, Jeffrey S.

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“…According to the findings of Kremer et al . (), fewer than half of the teachers employed in 3000 randomly selected Indian schools were actively teaching on an average day. Such supply‐side factors, in conjunction with issues of security, the availability of latrines and warm meals at schools, among other things, have been shown to inhibit progression of pupils from basic to higher education (Dréze and Sen, ) and to disproportionately affect girls’ educational attainment (Swainson, ).…”

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The Role of Age and Gender in Educational Expansion: The South Asian Experience in the Global Context

Sauer

2019

Review of Income and Wealth

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I calculate education Gini coefficients and decompose the overall degree of educational inequality into age, sex, and within‐group components for 171 countries from 1970 to 2010. Doing so enables me to analyze the distributional outcomes of educational expansion. I use South Asia as a case study, as the education distribution in the region is among the most unequal in the world. Generally, educational inequality is decreasing over the observed sample period around the globe. Yet, as improvements are initiated by enhancing the educational opportunities of the young, the gap between cohorts widens in transition phases but vanishes thereafter. Gaps between the sexes are reduced substantially, but widen if either males or females are the first to enter higher education levels. Also, gaps within population subgroups follow a similar trajectory. Instead of a Kuznets‐curve relation, I thus find evidence for educational inequality to evolve in waves as education expands.

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Section: South Asia In the Global Contextmentioning

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The Role of Age and Gender in Educational Expansion: The South Asian Experience in the Global Context

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2019

Review of Income and Wealth

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“…All regular teachers 12 are employed by the state, are well qualified, and are paid well (the average salary of regular teachers is over four times per capita income in AP). However, incentives for teacher attendance and performance are weak, with teacher absence rates of over 25% (Kremer et al ., 2005). Teacher unions are strong and disciplinary action for non‐performance is rare 13…”

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“…13 13 Kremer et al (2005) find that on any given working day, 25% of teachers are absent from schools across India, but only 1 head teacher in their sample of 3,000 government schools had ever fired a teacher for repeated absence. The teacher absence rate in AP is almost exactly equal to the all‐India average. …”

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The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback to Teachers on Student Learning: Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan

Sundararaman²

2010

The Economic Journal

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While the use of high-stakes testing in education is increasingly common, it is also controversial as opponents argue that these tests lead to distortion of teacher activity towards the test and away from activities that are not incentivized. An alternate use of tests that is suggested as a way of improving student learning outcomes is to use lowstakes tests to provide teachers with detailed diagnostic feedback on how their students are performing. It is posited that simply providing this information can help improve teaching practices, teacher goal setting, and student learning outcomes (without the distortions induced by high-stakes testing). We present experimental evidence on the impact of a program that provided low-stakes diagnostic tests and feedback and lowstakes monitoring of classroom processes across a representative set of schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We find that the teachers in the treatment schools appear to be working harder when measured by observers in the classroom, but that the students in these schools do no better on independent tests than students in schools that did not receive the program. This suggests that though teachers in the program worked harder while being observed, there was no impact of the feedback and monitoring on student learning outcomes. JEL Classification: I21, O15

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“…Previous studies also shows that teaching years in schools, teacher's level of education, teachers training are not linked with lower absence (Chaudhury, Hammer, Kremer, Muralidharan & Rogers, 2004).On the other side teacher's high salary and seniority were consistently related to high rate of absence, perhaps they were protected from any monitoring system (Kremer et al, 2005). Lower answerability of teachers is also a reason teacher's absenteeism in schools because assignment of teachers is done on political bases (Hasnain, 2008).…”

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“…It was observed that teacher's absence was more correlated with daily incentives to attend work. Absent rate was less where inspection was done regularly, have better infrastructure and were closer to the road (Kremer, Chaudhury, Rogers, Muralidharan, & Hammer, 2005). It was find out that in Pakistan absent rate among female teachers is greater than the male teachers.…”

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A Comparative Study of Government and Private School Teachers to Explore the Causes of Absenteeism at Secondary Level in District Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan

Akhtar

2013

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The major objective of the study was to compare the different reasons of absenteeism between private and public school teachers at secondary level in district Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan. Sample of 160 participants was selected.80 participants were from government schools and 80 were from private schools. A questionnaire was used as a research tool. For the analysis of data percentages were find out. It was find out that government teachers avail more leaves than private teacher. Job security, lenient attitude of principle, different functions in the family, transport problems and illness are the main reasons of the teachersâ€™ absenteeism from school. Teacher of private schools avail less leaves because they feel insecure and are unsatisfied with their jobs and working environment.

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Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot

Cited by 104 publications

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The Role of Age and Gender in Educational Expansion: The South Asian Experience in the Global Context

The Role of Age and Gender in Educational Expansion: The South Asian Experience in the Global Context

The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback to Teachers on Student Learning: Experimental Evidence from India

A Comparative Study of Government and Private School Teachers to Explore the Causes of Absenteeism at Secondary Level in District Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan

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