The Journal of Development Studies

The Journal of Development Studies

Published by Taylor & Francis

Online ISSN: 1743-9140

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Print ISSN: 0022-0388

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Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India

November 2023

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This paper examines the link between decentralisation in school management and student achievement levels in secondary schools in India. It employs observational data from two school surveys conducted as part of the Young Lives project in the southern Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to create a measure of decentralisation as a latent construct. The relationship between decentralisation and students’ abilities in mathematics and English is measured using linear mixed effects models. Contrary to the expectations in much literature, we find a negative association between decentralisation and students’ scores on Maths and English assessments, even when controlling for a variety of individual and school characteristics. The results from the analysis therefore problematises decentralisation initiatives such as school-based management to improve student achievement.

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Figure 1: Daily percentage change in retail maize prices in Malawi from April to July: 2018 -2020
Figure 3: Number of sales reported by district (April -July 2020)
Figure 4: Daily maize and soybean prices per kilogram received by farmers, April-July 2020
Figure 5: Conditional density estimates for maize prices
Figure 7: Geographical distribution of maize prices over the marketing season

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A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi

January 2024

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Aims and scope


Development studies publishes interdisciplinary research on development policy, theory and practice, including world development and social change.

  • The Journal of Development Studies was the first and is one of the best known international journals in the area of development studies.
  • Since its foundation in 1964, it has published many seminal articles on development and opened up new areas of debate.
  • Priority is given to papers which are: relevant to important current research in development policy, theory and analysis; make a novel and significant contribution to the field; provide critical tests, based on empirical work, of alternative theories, perspectives or schools of thought.

We invite articles that are interdisciplinary or focused on particular disciplines (e.g. economics, politics, geography, sociology or anthropology)…

For a full list of the subject areas this journal covers, please visit the journal website.

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Journal metrics


1.8 (2023)

Journal Impact Factor™


6%

Acceptance rate


5.2 (2023)

CiteScore™


8 days

Submission to first decision


27 days

Acceptance to publication


1.424 (2023)

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1.029 (2023)

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