TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Borkum, Evan
AU  - He, Fang
AU  - Linden, Leigh L.
        TI  - The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
        PY  - 2013/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7267
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7267
        AB  - We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations, based on the 95 and 90 percent confidence intervals. This finding is robust across individual competencies and subsets of the sample. The method of treatment, however, does seem to matter – physical libraries have no effect, while visiting librarians actually reduce test scores. We find no impact on test scores in other subjects or attendance rates.
        KW  - library
KW  - randomized controlled trial
KW  - education
KW  - development
        ER  -