Behavioral Nudges Reduced Dropout Risk among Vulnerable Students during the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Brazil
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 113,
May 2023
(pp. 494-97)
Abstract
In a companion paper (Lichand, Christen and Van Egeraat, 2022), we documented that learning losses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic were magnified by the fact that most schools neglected students' socio-emotional skills during remote learning. Taking advantage of a cluster randomized control trial that sent high school students or their parents text messages targeting their socio-emotional skills over 2020, we showed that such messages prevented 7.5 percent of learning losses in math and 24 percent of those in Portuguese. In this paper, we study whether the intervention also reduced dropout risk, especially among students at the highest risk of abandoning school.Citation
Lichand, Guilherme, Julien Christen, and Eppie van Egeraat. 2023. "Behavioral Nudges Reduced Dropout Risk among Vulnerable Students during the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Brazil." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113: 494-97. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231011Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- I12 Health Behavior
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I26 Returns to Education
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration