Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237499 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1221
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
We conducted an experiment in low-income 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 GPA by 0.09 of a standard deviation and increased the share of students satisfying attendance requirements for grade promotion by 4.5 percentage points. Treatment effects were larger for students at higher risk of later grade retention and dropout. Leveraging existing school inputs for a light-touch, cost-effective, and scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings.
Subjects: 
Education
Information experiment
Parent-School communication
Chile
JEL: 
I25
D8
N36
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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