{"type":"script","doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","abbr":"DECDI","affiliation":"World Bank - Development Impact Department","role":"Verification and preparation of metadata"}],"prod_date":"2026-04-02","version":"1"},"project_desc":{"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Rafael de Hoyos","affiliation":"Inter-American Development Bank","email":"rafaelde@iadb.org"},{"name":"Andrei Munteanu","affiliation":"Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al","email":"munteanu.andrei@uqam.ca"},{"name":"Cristian Pop-Eleches","affiliation":"Columbia University","email":"cp2124@columbia.edu"}],"title_statement":{"title":"Reproducibility package for The Impact Of School Grants On Disadvantaged Students: Experimental Evidence From Romania","idno":"RR_ROU_2026_584"},"data_statement":"Some data is temporarily embargoed by the authors (expected to be made public in the future). (Restricted Data)","software":[{"name":"Stata"}],"scripts":[{"title":"Reproducibility package for The Impact Of School Grants On Disadvantaged Students: Experimental Evidence From Romania","date":"2026-04","notes":"Computational reproducibility verified by Development Impact (DECDI) Analytics team, World Bank.","instructions":"See README in reproducibility package.","file_name":"RR_ROU_2026_584","zip_package":"RR_ROU_2026_584.zip","dependencies":"Stata dependencies are listed in the ado folder."}],"repository_uri":[{"name":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","uri":"https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org"}],"production_date":"2026-04-02","abstract":"In this report, we analyze the impact of the ROSE project, a program designed to improve student retention, graduation rates and pass rates on a national end-of-high-school exam for low-achievement high schools in Romania. The program was implemented in three waves, September 2017, September 2018, and September 2020, respectively, with eligible high schools randomly assigned to each. We exploit this staggered implementation of ROSE to causally measure its impacts on students. Our estimates indicate that the ROSE program had no significant impact on (i) student preferences for attending a ROSE high school, ii) student retention rates, (iii) high school graduation rates, (iv) enrollment in the post-high school baccalaureate (bac) exam, (v) bac pass rates, or\n(vi) bac scores. While there is a small increase in girls\u2019 bac passing rates (3 pp), we find little heterogeneity in these null effects by grant size, urban-rural status, student achievement levels, town income levels, and type of curriculum taught.","geographic_units":[{"name":"Romania","code":"ROU"}],"keywords":[{"name":"I21"},{"name":"I24"},{"name":"I28"},{"name":"C93"}],"output":[{"type":"Working Paper","description":"Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)","title":"The Impact Of School Grants On Disadvantaged Students: Experimental Evidence From Romania"}],"language":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"disclaimer":"The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development\/The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","license":[{"name":"Modified BSD3","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/bsd-3-clause\/"}],"contacts":[{"name":"Rafael de Hoyos","affiliation":"Inter-American Development Bank","email":"rafaelde@iadb.org"},{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"reproducibility@worldbank.org"}]},"datacite":{"creators":[{"givenName":"Rafael de","familyName":"Hoyos","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"Inter-American Development Bank"}]},{"givenName":"Andrei","familyName":"Munteanu","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al"}]},{"givenName":"Cristian","familyName":"Pop-Eleches","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"Columbia University"}]}],"titles":[{"lang":"en","title":"Reproducibility package for The Impact Of School Grants On Disadvantaged Students: Experimental Evidence From Romania"},{"title":"RR_ROU_2026_584","titleType":"Other"}],"publisher":"World Bank","publicationYear":"2026","types":{"resourceType":"Reproducibility package","resourceTypeGeneral":"Other"},"url":"https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org\/index.php\/catalog\/study\/RR_ROU_2026_584","language":"en"},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Open Code"},{"tag":"Restricted Data"}],"schematype":"script"}