The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico
A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve st...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25093620/heterogeneous-effect-information-student-performance-evidence-randomized-control-trial-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22845 |
| Summary: | A randomized control trial was conducted
to study whether providing 10th grade students with
information about the returns to upper secondary and
tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for
tertiary education, can contribute to improve student
performance. The study finds that the intervention had no
effects on the probability of taking a 12th grade national
standardized exam three years after, a proxy for on-time
high school completion, but a positive and significant
impact on learning outcomes and self-reported measures of
effort. The effects are larger for girls and students from
households with a relatively high income. These findings are
consistent with a simple model where time discount
determines the increase in effort and only students with
adequate initial conditions are able to translate increased
effort into better outcomes. |
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