Bidisha Barooah
Bidisha Barooah is a researcher at the Delhi School of Economics.
Content by Bidisha Barooah
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Publication - Project Report
Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi
8 Sep 2017 | Deepti Goel, Bidisha Barooah
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Project
Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi
The Annual Status of Education Reports have focused on schooling outcomes among 6-14 year olds in rural India. They have found almost universal enrolment, but highlight abysmally low levels of learning (of all the students enrolled in class V, about half cannot read class II level). In this background, the debate in India has shifted from increasing enrolment to improving...
2 Feb 2016 | Deepti Goel, Bidisha Barooah
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Multimedia Item - Video
Session 6 Part 2 (Coffey, Somanathan and Barooah) IGC-ISI Development Policy Conference 2014
29 Sep 2014
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Publication - Working Paper
Information Provision and the Quality of Education in Rural India (Working Paper)
1 Mar 2013 | Bidisha Barooah
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Publication - Working Paper
School meals and classroom effort: Evidence from India (Working Paper)
1 Feb 2013 | Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan
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Project
Information provision and the quality of education in rural India
This study seeks to understand whether providing information on the absolute and relative quality of schooling to the stakeholders affects the behavior of service providers in both the public and the private sector. The quality of public services offered to the poor, especially in health and education, is dismal in most developing countries. An often cited reason for the...
1 Apr 2011 | Farzana Afridi, Rohini Somanathan, Bidisha Barooah