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# **Table 9. Correlates with Students’ Excellence in Albanian and Math**

||||**D**<br>|**ependent**<br>|**variable:**<br>||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**% stud**|**ents who exc**<br>**(final exa**|**elled in Alb**<br>**m 2009)**|**anian**|**% st**|**udents who**<br>**(final ex**|**excelled in**<br>**am 2009)**|**math**|
||(1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)|(6)|(7)|(8)|
|**RESOURCES**|||||||||
|**Rural school**|**-0.09****<br>||||-0.01<br>||||
||**(0.042)**||||(0.025)||||
|Public transportation|0.03<br>(0031)||||-0.01<br>(0017)||||
|**No electricity (days)**|.<br>**-0.00*****<br>**(0.001)**||||.<br>-0.00<br>(0.001)||||
|**No telephone**|<br>-0.02||||<br>**-0.06*****||||
||(0.043)||||**(0.020)**||||
|**No library**|<br>-0.00<br>(0.036)||||<br>**-0.04****<br>**(0.017)**||||
|**Motivated teachers**|<br>**0.23*****||||<br>0.06||||
||<br>**(0.076)**||||<br>(0.037)||||
|**Teacher experience**|<br>**0.00****||||<br>0.00||||
||<br>**(0.002)**||||<br>(0.002)||||
|Ln (teacher wage)|-0.03||||-0.04||||
||(0.226)||||(0.127)||||
|**TOP-DOWN ACCOUNTABILITY AN**|**D TRANSP**|**ARENCY**|||||||
|**RED insections**||**001****||||000|||
|**p**||**.**<br>**(0.004)**||||.<br>(0.001)|||
|SD not subject to sanctions||0.02||||0.03|||
|||(0.042)||||(0.023)|||
|Teachers not subject to sanctions||-0.01||||-0.03|||
|||(0065)||||(0031)|||
|**Teachers absence-May09**||.<br>**-0.03****||||.<br>**-0.01*****|||
|||**(0.012)**||||**(0.004)**|||
|**School has a teacher absence register**||<br>0.04||||<br>**0.05***|||
|||(0.056)||||**(0.023)**|||
|Corruption in teacher appointment||<br>0.06||||<br>0.01|||
|||(0.128)||||(0.066)|||
|**PARTICIPATORY ACCOUNTABILI**|**TY AND PA**|**RENTS’ INV**|**OLVEMENT**||||||
|N. SB meetings|||0.01||||-0.00||
||||(0017)||||(0009)||
|Director can vote|||.<br>-0.02||||.<br>-0.02||
||||(0048)||||(0016)||
|**No info about participatory organs**|||.<br>-0.02<br>(0033)||||.<br>**-0.03****<br>**(0.017)**||
|No info about teachers‟ names|||.<br>-0.04<br>(0.032)||||<br>-0.01<br>(0.018)||
|**N f ti ith th**|||<br>006||||<br>**005***||
|**. o meengs w eacers**|||.<br>(0.038)||||**.**<br>**(0.023)**||
|**Lack of parental involvement is a prob**|**lem**||<br>**-0.15***||||<br>**-0.09****||
||||<br>**(0.089)**||||<br>**(0.038)**||
|**PARENTS’ AND COMMUNITY CHA**|**RACTERIS**|**TICS**|||||||
|Mother yrs. of education||||0.03||||0.01|
|||||(0.021)||||(0.013)|
|**Father yrs. of education**||||0.00<br>(0019)||||**0.03*****<br>**(0009)**|
|N. books in hh||||.<br>-0.00||||**.**<br>-0.00|
|||||(0.001)||||(0.001)|
|**Economic status**||||<br>**0.08***<br>**(0.028)**||||<br>0.03<br>(0.023)|
|**Ett f diid i th it**||||<br>**007****||||<br>**003****|
|**xen o ve n e communy**||||**-.**<br>**(0.028)**||||**-.**<br>**(0.014)**|
|Constant|0.58|0.13|0.22***|<br>0.00|0.40|0.05|0.12***|<br>-0.18*|
||<br>(1.312)|<br>(0.078)|<br>(0.037)|<br>(0.175)|<br>(2.352)|<br>(0.037)|<br>(0.027)|<br>(0.088)|
|RED fixed effects|YES|YES|YES|YES|YES|YES|YES|YES|
|<br>R-squared|<br>0.250|<br>0.204|<br>0.200|<br>0.254|<br>0.325|<br>0.153|<br>0.218|<br>0.253|

Note: Robust standard errors, in parentheses, have been adjusted to account for clustering within districts. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.