How to improve pupils' literacy? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a French educational project

Sébastien Massoni and Jean-Christophe Vergnaud

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: The Action Lecture program is an innovative teaching method run in some nursery and primary schools in Paris and designed to improve pupils' literacy. We report the results of an evaluation of this program. We describe the experimental protocol that was built to estimate the program's impact on several types of indicators. Data were processed following a Differences-in-Differences (DID) method. Then we use the estimation of the impact on academic achievement to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis and take a reduction of the class size program as a benchmark. The results are positive for the Action Lecture program

Keywords: Economics of education; evaluation Cost-effectiveness analysis; fiel experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2011-06
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Journal Article: How to improve pupils’ literacy? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a French educational project (2012)
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