Redistributing Teachers using Local Transfers

Siddhant Agarwal, Athisii Kayina, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Anugula Reddy
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Siddhant Agarwal: Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Athisii Kayina: Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Anugula Reddy: National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi

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Abstract: In this paper we show that local redistribution of educational resources via teacher transfers between neighboring public schools can improve equity in access to teachers. Transfers from teacher surplus schools to deficit schools within a 10 km radius in Haryana, a state of India for which we have geo-coded location of schools in 2013, enables 19 percent of deficit schools to meet the minimum requirement. Using estimates from other studies, we posit that the impact of this redistribution on girl’s primary completion rates (PCR) could be as high as 1.2 percentage points for those from poor households: roughly the annual growth of the PCR in the state. We also show that the donor and recipient schools are, on an average, matched in characteristics: in terms of the development of the region, its rural/urban location, connectivity and school characteristics. A comparison of transfers that follow our redistribution rule to transfers resulting from an actual transfer policy shows that while our rule removes deficits in rural areas, the actual transfers favored more developed regions.

Keywords: Equity; Transfer; Pupil Teacher Ratio; Primary Schooling; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2016-09
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