Free Textbooks and Long-term Outcomes: Evidence from Turkey

Sonkurt Sen ()

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series from University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: Access to resources significantly influences academic success, particularly for students facing disadvantages. This study, focusing on females, examinestheeffectsofareform in Turkeythat provided free school textbooksto all students. Usingprimaryschoolen rollment eligibility cutoffs and implementing a Regression Discontinuity design, I find that providing free textbooks in primary school improves females’ likelihood of com pleting high school. In terms of labor market outcomes, I find that females are more likely to be in employment and less likely to be out of labor force. Additionally, males are also less likely to be out of labor force. There is no impact on earnings, nor on the socio-economic classification of the job.

Keywords: Textbooks; Access to Resources; Returns to Education; Earnings; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I21 I26 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2026-06
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