Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290082 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01284
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper describes a policy experiment implemented in Costa Rica to increase learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0.11-0.12 standard deviations. An increase in parental involvement through the proposed activities drove the effect. No evidence was found that information is transferred within parental networks.
Subjects: 
Education
Early Childhood Development
Text Messages
Parenting
COVID-19
JEL: 
C93
I21
J13
O15
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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