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Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries
The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2006 · Vol. 20(1) · pp. 91–116
Nazmul Chaudhury✉(World Bank)Jeffrey S. Hammer(World Bank)Michael Kremer(Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)Karthik Muralidharan(Harvard University Press)Frances Rogers(World Bank Group)
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.
Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareGlobal Maternal and Child HealthGender, Labor, and Family DynamicsDeveloping countryAction (physics)Health workerMedicineEnvironmental healthSocioeconomicsPsychologyGeographyEconomic growthHealth services
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AbsenteeismDeveloping CountriesFacultyHealth PersonnelHumansIncomeRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicObservation
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