Providing performance information in education: An experimental evaluation in Colombia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Gonzalez, Kathryn; Lagos, Francisco; Deming, David J.
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104185
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: education; randomization; INFORMATION; Parents' beliefs; Quality of education; colombia

摘要

We conducted a randomized controlled trial of an information intervention to evaluate the effects of providing information to families on their children's reading and math achievement in a mid-size city in Colombia. Most families are poorly informed about their children's performance, but our information intervention closes the gap between beliefs and performance and induces some behavioral response among parents in the treatment group. We find positive impacts on student achievement of 0.09 SD to 0.10 SD in the first two semesters after treatment, followed by fadeout in year two. This overall pattern is driven by large gains-around 0.28 SD-and then similarly complete fadeout for students with low baseline test scores. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.