Data and Code for: Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Damien de Walque, World Bank; Christine Valente, University of Bristol

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Project Citation:

de Walque, Damien, and Valente, Christine. Data and Code for: Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-07-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E154261V1

Project Description

Summary: Many countries use CCTs targeted to parents to promote schooling. Attendance conditions may work through two channels: incentivization and information. If children have private information, (i) providing attendance information to parents may increase attendance inexpensively relative to CCTs and (ii) it may be more effective to incentivize children, who have full information, than parents. Tackling both questions in a unified experimental setting, we find that information alone improves parental monitoring and has a large effect relative to our CCT. Incentivizing children is at least as effective as incentivizing parents––importantly, not because parents were able to appropriate transfers to children.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: school attendance; conditional cash transfers; moral hazard ; Mozambique

JEL Classification:
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      I25 Education and Economic Development
      N37 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania

Geographic Coverage: ISO 3166-2:MZ-B

Time Period(s): 12/4/2015 – 3/9/2017

Universe: Girls in Grade 6 or 7.

Data Type(s): experimental data

Methodology

Sampling: Attendance data: all girls enrolled in Grade 6 and 7 in participating schools. Household survey data: random sample of girls who had completed at least Grade 5 and at most Grade 6 in participating schools in the period 2013-2015. See paper for further details.

Data Source: Primary data.

Collection Mode(s): computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); face-to-face interview

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