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Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions

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dc.contributor.authorValente, Christine
dc.contributor.authorde Walque, Damien
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-19T16:11:51Z
dc.date.available2018-06-19T16:11:51Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.description.abstractEducation conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental evidence that the information content of an education conditional cash transfer program, when given to parents independently of any transfer, can have a substantial effect on school attendance. The effect is as large as 75 percent of the effect of a conditional cash transfer incentivizing parents, and not significantly different from it. In contrast, a conditional transfer program incentivizing children instead of parents is nearly twice as effective as an "information only" treatment providing the same information to parents about their child's attendance. Taken together, these results suggest that children have substantial agency in their schooling decisions. The paper replicates the findings from most evaluations of conditional cash transfers that gains in attendance achieved by incentivizing parents financially do not translate into gains in test scores. But it finds that both the information only treatment and the alternative intervention incentivizing children substantially improve math test scores.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/720071529003623702/Incentivizing-school-attendance-in-the-presence-of-parent-child-information-frictions
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8476
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29905
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8476
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS
dc.subjectABSENTEEISM
dc.subjectSCHOOL ATTENDANCE
dc.subjectMORAL HAZARD
dc.subjectDROPOUT RATE
dc.subjectPRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectCASH INCENTIVES
dc.subjectEDUCATION POLICY
dc.subjectTEST SCORE
dc.titleIncentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictionsen
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okr.crossref.titleIncentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions
okr.date.disclosure2018-06-14
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/720071529003623702/Incentivizing-school-attendance-in-the-presence-of-parent-child-information-frictions
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okr.topicEducation::Economics of Education
okr.topicEducation::Education For All
okr.topicEducation::Educational Sciences
okr.topicEducation::Primary Education
okr.topicEducation::Public Examination System
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Conditional Cash Transfers
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics
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