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Are Public Libraries Improving Quality of Education? : When the Public Good Provision is Not Enough. / Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Education for all.
- Effective schools & teachers.
- Libraries.
- Primary education.
- Public good provision.
- Quality of education.
- School quality.
- Secondary education.
- Tertiary education.
- Local Subjects:
- Education.
- Education for all.
- Effective schools & teachers.
- Libraries.
- Primary education.
- Public good provision.
- Quality of education.
- School quality.
- Secondary education.
- Tertiary education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 pages)
- Other Title:
- Are Public Libraries Improving Quality of Education?
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper analyzes the relation between public, education-related infrastructure and the quality of education in schools. The analysis uses a case study of the establishment of two large, high-quality public libraries in low-income areas in Bogota, Colombia. It assesses the impact of these libraries on the quality of education by comparing national test scores (SABER 11) for schools close to and far from the libraries before (2000-02) and after (2003-08) the libraries were opened. The paper introduces a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition on difference-in-differences estimates to assess whether variation of traditional determinants of mathematics, verbal, and science test scores explains the estimates. The analysis finds differences that are not statistically different from zero that could be attributed to the establishment of the libraries. These results are robust to alternative specifications, a synthetic control approach, and an alternative measure of distance.
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