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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Main Author: Karachiwalla, Naureen
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146787

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