Peer effects and textbooks in primary education
Subtitle: evidence from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
By: by Markus Frölich, Katharina Michaelowa.
Contributors: Michaelowa, Katharina
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1519; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1519
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Textbooks -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Academic achievement -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Description: "As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes beyond the estimation of direct effects of textbooks on students' learning and focuses on peer effects resulting from textbooks owned by students' classmates. Applying and extending nonparametric estimation methods from the treatment evaluation literature we separate the direct effect of textbooks from their peer effect. The latter clearly dominates but depends upon the initial level of textbook availability"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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