A Teacher Unlike Me: Social Distance, Learning, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries.

Same-type teachers are believed to improve the learning outcomes of disadvantaged students. This paper examines an understudied characteristic—caste—with rich longitudinal data from Pakistan to identify causal effects. The matching and switching of students to teachers is pseudorandom, and effects a...

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Publicado en:Economic Development & Cultural Change Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 225 - 272
Autor principal: Karachiwalla, Naureen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Jan2019
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