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Teacher Truancy in India: The Role of Culture, Norms and Economic Incentives

Social scientists often emphasize how `culture' and `social norms' can be important determinants of economic behavior and development. This raises questions of the relative importance of economic incentives and these other more social variables, like culture, and of how they interact with...

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Main Author: Kaushik Basu
Format: Printed Book
Published: BREAD Working Paper No. 112 2006
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/001821.pdf
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