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" One study19 found that an excellent predictor of the supply of private schools in a Pakistani village is whether a secondary girl’s school had been set up in the area a generation earlier. Educated girls, looking for an opportunity to make some money without having to leave the village, were increasingly entering the education business as teachers "

Abhijit V. Banerjee , Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty


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Abhijit V. Banerjee quote : One study19 found that an excellent predictor of the supply of private schools in a Pakistani village is whether a secondary girl’s school had been set up in the area a generation earlier. Educated girls, looking for an opportunity to make some money without having to leave the village, were increasingly entering the education business as teachers