Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India / Renata Lemos, Karthik Muralidharan, Daniela Scur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemos, Renata.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Muralidharan, Karthik.

Scur, Daniela.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28336.

NBER working paper series no. w28336

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools have higher management quality, driven by much stronger people management. Third, people management quality is correlated with both independent measures of teaching practice, as well as school productivity measured by student value added. Fourth, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more likely to retain their most effective teachers. Neither pattern is seen in public schools.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2021.