ddk_2011: Student Achievement Data
In QTE.RD: Quantile Treatment Effects under the Regression Discontinuity Design

ddk_2011

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Student Achievement Data

Description

The student achievement data used in Duflo, Dupas, and Kremer (2011) is available from the Harvard Dataverse (see Source below). The original dataset contains 7,022 observations and 106 variables. We extracted 5,795 observations with non-missing values for the outcome variable totalscore and retained 10 key variables.

Usage

data(ddk_2011)

Format

A data frame with 5795 rows and 10 columns.

schoolid: ID of primary school.
tracking: School sampled for tracking.
percentile: Student's percentile in initial distribution.
totalscore: Total endline score.
etpteacher: Student assigned to contract teacher.
lowstream: Student assigned to lower-ability section (if tracking school).
highstream: Student assigned to higher-ability section (if tracking school).
girl: Sex of student: female.
agetest: Age of student at time of test.
ts_std: Standardized total endline score.

Source

\Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.7910/DVN/LWFH9U")}

References

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer (2011) “Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya,” American Economic Review, 1739-1774.

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