de-barros/psp

Replication code: Large learning gains from government-delivered school reform in Morocco # Large learning gains from government-delivered school reform in Morocco This repository contains the Stata and R code that reproduces the tables and figures for a study of the one-year effects of Morocco's Pioneer School Program (PSP), a government-implemented reform in public primary schools that combines structured pedagogy with targeted remediation following the "Teaching at the Right Level" approach. The evaluation uses a prospective, pre-registered matched difference-in-differences design; learning outcomes are item-response-theory (IRT) scored assessments in Arabic, French, and Mathematics; heterogeneity is estimated with a causal forest. The entry point `code/00_master.do` reproduces every exhibit from analysis-ready ("clean") data. ## Preregistration The pre-analysis plan for this study is registered on the Open Science Framework: . ## Data availability The datasets that support this study are **not** included in this repository and are provided separately, subject to their ownership and access conditions. - **Primary data (author-collected).** The baseline and endline student assessment data (the item responses underlying the IRT-scored Arabic, French, and Mathematics tests) were collected by the authors for this study. These can be shared for peer review and, after a deidentification pass, will be deposited openly. - **Administrative data (restricted).** All other datasets (school administrative records, examination scores, student enrollment and dropout records, student lists, and the matched school sample derived from them) are owned by Morocco's Ministry of National Education. They cannot be redistributed and can be made available only to the journal's Data Editor under a data-use agreement. The analysis reads the primary data through the global `$published` and the administrative data through `$restricted` (both set in `paths.do`). Neither directory is part of this repository. Raw source data and the upstream cleaning/deidentification are no …