School facilities and student achievements: evidence from the Timss

Arnt Ove Hopland ()
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Arnt Ove Hopland: Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Abstract: This paper studies the link between school facilities and student achievements in eight countries using data from the TIMSS 2003 database. OLS and propensity score matching is used to control for observable characteristics. Both methods indicate that poor school facilities may be negatively associated with student achievements, but the estimated coefficients are mainly insignificant. Significantly negative estimates are found in only three out of eight countries when using OLS. When using matching on propensity scores I only find significant coefficients in one of the countries.

Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2011-09-23
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