Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention

Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Muñoz-Morales, Juan; Smith, Jeffrey; Thornton, Rebecca

Type de document :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.12.010

Titre :

Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention

Auteur(s) :

Buhl-Wiggers, Julie [Auteur]
Kerwin, Jason [Auteur]
Department of Applied Economics [Minnesota] [APEC]
Muñoz-Morales, Juan [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Smith, Jeffrey [Auteur]
Thornton, Rebecca [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

Journal of Econometrics

Éditeur :

Elsevier

Date de publication :

2022-05-11

ISSN :

0304-4076

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy program in northern Uganda. The program increases test scores by 1.4 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds show that the impact ...
Lire la suite >We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy program in northern Uganda. The program increases test scores by 1.4 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds show that the impact standard deviation exceeds 1.0 SD. This implies that the variation in effects across our students is wider than the spread of mean effects across all randomized evaluations of developing country education interventions in the literature. This very effective program does indeed leave some students behind. At the same time, we do not learn much from our analyses that attempt to determine which students benefit more or less from the program. We reject rank preservation, and the weaker assumption of stochastic increasingness leaves wide bounds on quantile-specific average treatment effects. Neither conventional nor machine-learning approaches to estimating systematic heterogeneity capture more than a small fraction of the variation in impacts given our available candidate moderators.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

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