Contract Teachers
In this paper authors use non-experimental data from government schools in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, two of the largest Indian states, to present average school outcomes by contract status of teachers. The authors find that after controllin...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11630646/contract-teachers http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17961 |
| Summary: | In this paper authors use
non-experimental data from government schools in Uttar
Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, two of the largest Indian
states, to present average school outcomes by contract
status of teachers. The authors find that after controlling
for teacher characteristics and school fixed effects,
contract teachers are associated with higher effort than
civil service teachers with permanent tenures. Higher
teacher effort is associated with better student performance
after controlling for other school inputs and student
characteristics. Given that salaries earned by contract
teachers are one fourth or less of civil service teachers,
contract teachers may be a more cost-effective resource.
However, contracts 'as they are' appear weak. Not
only do contract teachers have fairly low average effort in
absolute terms, but those who have been on the job for at
least one full tenure have lower effort than others who are
in the first contract period. |
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