Student Achievement Data
ddk_2011.RdThe 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.