Parents’ Beliefs about Their Children’s Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments
By Rebecca Dizon-Ross. The American Economic Review, 2019
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Schools worldwide distribute information to parents about their children’s academic performance. Do frictions prevent parents, particularly low-income parents, from accessing this information to make decisions? A field experiment in Malawi shows that, at baseline, parents’ beliefs about their children’s academic performance are often inaccurate. Providing parents with clear, digestible performance information causes them to update their beliefs and adjust their investments: they increase the school enrollment of their higher-performing children, decrease the enrollment of lower-performing children, and choose educational inputs that are more closely matched to their children’s academic level. Heterogeneity analysis suggests information frictions are worse among the poor. (JEL C93, D83, I21, I24, J13, O15)
Subfields: Education, Safety Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, background): “Researchers have shown that information about school quality affects parental investment decisions (Greaves et al., 2019) and that parents’ beliefs about children’s ability affect their educational investments (Dizon-Ross, 2019).”
- Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis (2019, unknown): “2017),(1) and they have been studied in many important policy areas such as education (Dizon-Ross 2019), healthcare (Wisdom et al.”
- Nudging in education (2018, background): “Positive effects were also obtained in a Chilean study using high frequency text messaging (Berlinski, Busso, Dinkelman, & Martinez, 2016) and a study in Malawi providing parents with information about their child's performance on tests (Dizon-Ross, 2017).”
- Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment* (2018, background): “This would reduce the misallocation of schooling investments, as in Dizon-Ross (2019).”