School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil-teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-110

  Duflo, Esther ^a,b,c,d   Dupas, Pascaline ^b,c,d,e   Kremer, Michael ^b,c,f,g,h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BREAD   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Brookings ^*  (United States)

^h CCR   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract teachers; Corruption; Decentralization; Institutions; Nepotism; PTA; School based management; Teacher effort; Test score gain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925539653     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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