Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries

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Authors

Michael Kremer · Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Karthik Muralidharan · Harvard University Press

Abstract

In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators make unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities.

Topics & Keywords

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Global Maternal and Child Health Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Partnerships for the goals

Publication Details

Published in: The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 91-116

DOI: 10.1257/089533006776526058

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