Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Numerical/Quantitative Data | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Africa | 2 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 1 |
| Gabon | 1 |
| Gambia | 1 |
| Ghana | 1 |
| Guinea | 1 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
| Liberia | 1 |
| Mauritania | 1 |
| Niger | 1 |
| Nigeria | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textUNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa, the loss of teaching hours due to teacher absenteeism corresponds to a waste of approximately 46 cents for every US dollar invested in education, an annual wastage of 1-3% of GDP. This brief summarizes the results of research in 11 countries in West and Central Africa under the Time to Teach study, a project in UNICEF that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Absenteeism, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Attendance
Direct linkHabyarimana, James; Mbakile, Bekezela; Pop-Eleches, Cristian – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
We characterize medium and long-run labor market impacts of HIV/AIDS and ARV treatment using unique panel data of worker absenteeism and information from an AIDS treatment program at a large mining firm in Botswana. We present robust evidence of an inverse-V shaped pattern in worker absenteeism around the time of ARV treatment inception.…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
