The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance

• Tác giả: Rafael de Hoyos
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 170.1 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293466
• Chủ đề: 1. AVERAGE TEST SCORE; 2. EMPLOYMENT; 3. SKILLS; 4. SOCIAL NORMS; 5. UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT

Tóm tắt

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.