Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71745 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7267
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
library
randomized controlled trial
education
development
JEL: 
I21
I28
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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