Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education Experimental Evidence from Madagascar

By Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen. 2013

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Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India (2012, unknown): “In any setting where actual female leadership is affected [as opposed to situations where female role models are briefly introduced (14, 32)], the two effects may coexist.”
Education choices and returns to schooling: Mothers' and youths' subjective expectations and their role by gender (2014, background): “The only paper we know of that uses data on subjective expectations (but not on risk perceptions) to understand gender differences is by Zafar (2009), who analyzes the college major choice of undergraduate students at Northwestern University.”
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Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns (2019, background): “We exclude studies that involve informational interventions in earlier grades that focus on shaping students’ college expectations and/or persistence in primary and secondary education (e.g., Dinkleman and Martinez, 2014; Jensen, 2010; McGuigan, McNally, & Wyness, 2016; Nguyen, 2008).”
Information and College Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. Working Paper 18551. (2012, unknown): “Nguyen (2007) arrives at similar conclusions after conducting a similar experiment in Madagascar.”
Understanding the Income Gradient in College Attendance in Mexico: The Role of Heterogeneity in Expected Returns (2014, background): “…obstacles to human capital accumulation and fostering Mexico’s development 5The following three related papers, by Attanasio and Kaufmann (2007), Nguyen (2008) and Jensen (2008), also find that “perceived” returns to schooling matter for people’s schooling decisions: Jensen (2008) finds that…”
Parents’ Beliefs about Their Children’s Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments (2019, unknown): “Most of the existing literature has focused on misinformation about aggregate factors, such as the population-average returns to education, school quality, or other features of the education system (Jensen, 2010; Nguyen, 2008; Andrabi et al., 2016; Bettinger et al., 2012; Dinkelman and Mart́ınez A, ”
Identifying Effective Education Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Meta-Analysis of Impact Evaluations (2017, background): “Nguyen (2008) also found that information interventions that share information with students about the real returns to education can also lead to improvement in student performance, although providing student school report cards to communities in Liberia did not have a strong impact (Piper & Korda,…”
Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education (2011, unknown): “Recent studies by Jensen (2010) for the Dominican Republic and Nguyen (2008) for Madagascar have shown that providing a small amount of information about Mincer returns to education has large impacts on school attendance, test scores, primary and high school continuation, and high school completion…”
Nudging in education (2018, background): “Paunesku et al. (2015) found positive effects on grades for a larger sample, but only for students at risk of dropping out.”
Improving Learning in Primary Schools of Developing Countries (2015, background): “…report auxiliary cost estimates for a subset of experiments (Abeberese, Kumler, & Linden, 2012; Banerjee et al., 2007; Duflo, Dupas, et al., 2012; Duflo et al., 2011; Duflo, Hanna, & Ryan, 2012; Glewwe et al., 2009; Glewwe et al., 2010; Kremer et al., 2009; Nguyen, 2008; Pradhan et al., 2011).”
What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews (2015, background): “Despite a lower effect size, providing information on the returns to schooling in Madagascar (Nguyen 2009) is one of the most cost-effective education interventions that has been evaluated using an RCT (Kremer, Brannen, and Glennerster 2013).”