Achieving Quality Universal Primary Education in India: Challenges & Opportunities

By Karthik Muralidharan; Friday, December 23, 2011; NCAER Auditorium, New Delhi

Professor Muralidharan presented results from nearly 10 years of primary field research conducted across India on the quality of primary education, and discuss policy challenges and options for effectively implementing India's Children's Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act that came into effect in April 2010.
Karthik Muralidharan is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and a Member of the Jameel-Poverty Action Lab network. Karthik has an A.B. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.

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