TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Frölich, Markus
AU  - Michaelowa, Katharina
        TI  - Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
        PY  - 2005/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1519
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1519
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - evaluation
KW  - student achievement
KW  - primary education
KW  - nonparametric estimation
        ER  -