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Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages / Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman, Claudia Martínez A..
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlinski, Samuel.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28581.
- NBER working paper series no. w28581
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- We conducted an experiment in low-income urban schools in Chile to test the effects and behavioral changes triggered by a program that sends attendance, grade, and classroom behavior information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math scores by 0.09 of a standard deviation and increased the share of students satisfying attendance requirements for grade promotion by 4.7 percentage points. Treatment effects were larger for students at higher risk of later grade retention and dropout. Our results demonstrate that communicating existing school information to parents frequently can shrink parent-school information gaps and improve school outcomes in a light-touch, scalable, and cost-effective way.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2021.
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