Arbeitspapier

Peer effects and textbooks in primary education: Evidence from francophone sub-Saharan Africa

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 311

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Thema
primary education
student achievement
evaluation
nonparametric estimation
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Lehrmaterial
Unterricht
Schwarzafrika
Peer effect

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frölich, Markus
Michaelowa, Katharina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frölich, Markus
  • Michaelowa, Katharina
  • Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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