Missing in action: teacher and health worker absence in developing countries.

By N. Chaudhury, J. Hammer, Michael Kremer, K. Muralidharan, F. H. Rogers. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006

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TEACHER ABSENCE IN INDIA: A SNAPSHOT (2005, background): “Most of these estimates come from other countries covered by the same research project on provider absence in education and health, carried out by the authors of this study and using standardized methodology (Chaudhury et al. 2005).”
Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the United States (2009, background): “Teacher absences are an endemic problem in developing countries (Banerjee and Duflo 2006; Chaudhury et al. 2006).”
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (2014, background): “Such commitment contracts could also help tackle the widespread problem of absenteeism among public-sector workers in developing countries such as India, where 25 per cent of government schoolteachers are absent from work on any given day, or Uganda, where 27 per cent are missing (Chaudhury et al. 2”
Private Schooling in India: A New Educational Landscape (2008, background): “While these estimates are below the 25 percent absenteeism found in more detailed studies using multiple unannounced visits, the data nevertheless refl ect some of the same public/private differences (Chaudhury et al. 2006; Muralidharan and Kremer, 2006).”
Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “34 This last channel is particularly relevant in the context of India, where the quality of service-provision in the public sector has been found to be extremely poor (Chaudhury et al., 2006).”
Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy (2008, background): “For example, Angrist et al. 61 A study of teacher absences in six developing countries found high teacher absenteeism—19 percent of days, on average, of which only approximately one-tenth were authorized leave days (Chaudhury et al. 2006).”
The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers (2017, positive): “Combined with extensive controls for selection of students to teachers, including prior test-scores, in the estimation of TVA measures (in line with the methodology of Chetty et al. (2014a)), we believe that any bias in our estimates arising from the systematic allocation of contract teachers to spe”
What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa (2017, background): “…teachers, are less likely to be absent than regular teachers (7 points, or 15 percent lower absence rate compared to the average).18 As discussed in Chaudhury et al. (2006), a teacher’s salary and other benefits (such as job security) are related mainly to the teacher’s experience and educational…”
Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa (2017, background): “In this journal, Chaudhury et al. (2006) estimated a school absence rate of 27 percent in Uganda in 2002–03, which compares to our measure of 28 percent in 2013.”
The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth (Part II) (2007, background): “73 These conclusions are also underscored by the evidence on extensive teacher absenteeism in developing countries (see Chaudhury et al. (2006); Banerjee and Duflo (2006)).”