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Parents’ aspirations and commitment with education. Lessons from a randomized control trial in a shantytown

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  • Cid, Alejandro
  • Bernatzky, Marianne

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This paper documents the impact of an after-school program called Apoyo Escolar, sited in one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods of a developing country, Uruguay. The outcomes of interest are academic achievement, behavior at school and grade retention. By a field experiment, we explore the interaction effects of being randomly assigned to an after-school program with an indicator of parent commitment - an unaddressed question in previous literature. We found novel results that should guide policy design. Increasing time spent in safe settings does not guarantee academic success: the after-school program is effective in improving academic performance when children have committed parents. And students’ performance at school is highly correlated with parents’ educational expectations. Thus, the interaction between hope, family and after-school for disadvantaged children deserves more attention in policy design.

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  • Cid, Alejandro & Bernatzky, Marianne, 2017. "Parents’ aspirations and commitment with education. Lessons from a randomized control trial in a shantytown," MPRA Paper 84764, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    after-school program; poverty; education; impact evaluation; family; parenting;
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    JEL classification:

    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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