Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela
• 署名单位: The World Bank; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; Cornell University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead112
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 2071-2100
• 关键词: teachers; performance; principals; QUALITY; IMPACT; matter; POLICY

摘要

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report five main results. First, management quality in public schools is low, and similar to 2 standard deviations 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 independent measures of teaching practice, as well as school productivity measured by student value added. Fourth, better-managed schools have lower variation in within-school teacher effectiveness and higher levels of minimum teacher effectiveness. Fifth, consistent with better people management, teacher pay in private schools is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, whereas we find no such correlation in public schools.