The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to estimate both short-term (1-3 years) and long-term (5-7 years) average treatment effects on the treated (ATT). We find that the impacts of VNEN on students' cognitive skills are relatively small in the short-term, and that they are larger for boys, ethnic minorities, and students in Northern Vietnam. The VNEN program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non-cognitive skills are sizable and significant for ethnic minority students, although there seems to be little gender difference. The long-term impacts are less precisely estimated, but they appear to fade away, showing little or no impact of the VNEN program on cognitive skills. There is little variation of long-term impacts by gender or geographical region, although the imprecision of the estimates for ethnic minority students does not allow us to rule out large long-term impacts on cognitive skills for those students. The program's impacts on non-cognitive skills also seem to have dissipated in the long-term
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2022
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Authors: | Dang, Hai-Anh ; Glewwe, Paul ; Lee, Jongwook ; Vu, Khoa |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Kognition | Cognition | Vietnam | Viet Nam | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Studierende | Students | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement | Schule | School |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (70 p) |
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Series: | IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 15005 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.4114534 [DOI] |
Classification: | I2 - Education ; O1 - Economic Development |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083922