program that sends attendance, grade, and classroom behavior information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our … scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …

matching the experimental data to post-secondary institution records and income tax files, I am able to examine the effects of … intervention greatly improved students' outcomes in the long run by improving academic matching. In contrast, the college grant had …

systematic ways. For example, students who receive extremely positive information about their ability revise upward their … prediction for short-term grade-point average (GPA). Similarly, those who receive very negative information revise downward their … analysis: Prior beliefs about outcomes to be realized in college tend to be fairly precise, while new information influences …

possess private information about students' post-enrollment treatment effects. This necessary condition for mismatch provides … the basis for a new test. We propose an empirical methodology to test for private information in such a setting. The test … private information that is a statistically significant predictor of the students' post-enrollment academic performance. We …