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Better Teachers, Better Results? Evidence from Rural Pakistan

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  • Marine de Talancé

    (IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, LEDA-DIAL - Développement, Institutions et Modialisation - LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Using a gain model with three different levels of fixed effects, this paper empirically esti-mates the impacts of teachers on students' achievement in three districts in the rural province ofPunjab in Pakistan. The model-based results suggest that teachers' factors do explain students'achievement. Increasing teachers' wages could improve schooling quality along with recruitinglocal teachers with non-permanent contracts. Recruiting local teachers has an important posi-tive impact on students' achievement especially for girls. It could therefore reduce gender basedinequalities of academic achievement. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that policy reforms con-cerning training programs and re-thinking wage policies should be on the agenda of future research.

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  • Marine de Talancé, 2016. "Better Teachers, Better Results? Evidence from Rural Pakistan," Working Papers hal-01394902, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01394902
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