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Right to Education Act : Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality / Manisha Shah & Bryce Millett Steinberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Manisha, author.
- Steinberg, Bryce Millett, author.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; no. w25608.
- NBER working paper series ; no. w25608
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right to education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (21 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.
- Summary:
- The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6-14. This paper investigates whether national trends in educational data changed around the time of this law using household surveys and administrative data. We document four trends: (1) School-going increases after the passage of RTE, (2) Test scores decline dramatically after 2010, (3) School infrastructure appears to be improving both before and after RTE, and (4) The number of students who have to repeat a grade falls precipitously after RTE is enacted, in line with the official provisions of the law.
- Notes:
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