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Incentivising Textbooks for Self-Study: Experimental Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

We designed and randomly evaluated the impact of textbooks for a self-study scheme in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo targeting student achievement in primary schools. Students in treatment schools were 7 percentage points more likely to pass the national exam, and those who pa...

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Published in:Economic Journal Vol. 134; no. 664; pp. 3262 - 3291
Main Authors: Falisse, Jean-Benoît, Huysentruyt, Marieke, Olofsgård, Anders
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2024
Subjects:
School children
Language ability testing
French language
Textbooks
Autodidacticism
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