Essays in development economics : incumbency disadvantage, political competition, and remedial education in India

(cont.) The remedial education program hires young women from the community to provide remedial assistance to third and fourth grade children who have fallen behind their peers. The program is extremely cheap (five dollars per child per year), and is easily replicable. We find the program to be very effective, increasing learning by 0.15 standard deviations in the first year, and 0.25 in the second year. The results are similar in the two grade levels, and in the two cities.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2004

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• Linden, Leigh L., 1975-

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• Esther Duflo.

• Economics.

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