Parents-only nudge effects on learning were larger and positive for children with below-median baseline skills¶

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q3 i? Pre-registered subgroup analyses showed larger positive impacts on learning for children with below-median baseline learning levels in the parents-only arm. → Sharon Wolf and Guilherme Lichand 2023

Evidence¶

Sharon Wolf and Guilherme Lichand 2023¶

Sharon Wolf and Guilherme Lichand. (2023). Nudging parents and teachers to improve learning and reduce child labor in Cote d'Ivoire. npj Science of Learning 8:37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00180-z

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Heterogeneity analysis by baseline skills from the school-randomized trial; Table 3 reports the parents arm at 0.115 (p = 0.086) on the learning summary measure, with the article stating "impacts were larger and positive for children who performed below the median at baseline".

"The pattern of results suggests that impacts were larger and positive for children who performed below the median at baseline (see Table 3 and Fig. 1)."

Discussion¶

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