Teacher Content Knowledge and Student Learning in Indian Secondary Schools

This replication package contains data and code for a study on teacher content knowledge and its relationship with student learning in Indian secondary schools. The package includes all materials necessary to replicate one figure and two tables from the published paper. The replication process is estimated to take less than 5 minutes on a standard desktop.

Use Cases

• Replicate the analysis of the relationship between teacher content knowledge and student learning outcomes using the provided Stata code.
• Examine the data structure and variables used to generate the published figure on teacher knowledge.
• Validate the statistical results presented in the two tables of the original research paper.

Strengths

• Directly supports replication of a peer-reviewed paper published in AEA Papers and Proceedings.
• Includes all necessary data and code for replication, ensuring computational reproducibility.
• Replication process is documented to take less than 5 minutes on standard hardware.

Limitations

• The dataset scope is limited to the specific variables and analyses required for the original paper's replication.
• Data is provided in Stata (.dta) format, which requires proprietary software or specific converters for use in other environments.
• The sample size, geographic coverage within India, and specific variable definitions are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse

Collection Method

Collected for the research study 'Teacher Content Knowledge in Indian Secondary Schools and Its Relationship with Student Learning'.

Freshness

Data was last updated in February 2026.

Geography

India