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

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  • Sébastien Massoni

    () (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • Jean-Christophe Vergnaud

    () (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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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.

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Paper provided by HAL in its series Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) with number hal-00676515.

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Date of creation: 2012
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Publication status: Published, Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 1, 84-91
Handle: RePEc:hal:cesptp:hal-00676515

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Keywords: Costs; Educational economics; Efficiency; Resource allocation;

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