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Teacher characteristics and student performance in India: a pupil fixed effects approach

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This paper exploits unique data that permits the matching of students' test scores in different subjects to the teachers that teach those subjects. Within-pupil (across-subject, rather than across-time) variation is used to examine whether the characteristics of different subject teachers are related to a students' marks across subjects. There are four main contributions. Firstly the findings, using a credible methodology for identification, give only modest grounds for optimism about the eff...

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University of Oxford Publisher's website
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Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
Publication date:
2006-11-01
Paper number:
GPRG-WPS-059
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1144139
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2020-12-15

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