Hope and commitment. Lessons from a randomize control trial in a shanty town

Bernatzky, Marianne; Cid, Alejandro

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Bernatzky, Marianne
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-21T20:05:16Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-21T20:05:16Z
dc.date.issued	2014	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1341
dc.description.abstract	This paper documents the impact of an after-school program called Apoyo Escolar, sited in the most ulnerable neighborhood of a developing country. The outcomes of interest are academic achievement, behavior in the classroom and grade repetition. We designed a field experiment exploiting the existence of oversubscription to the program. We found a novel result that should guide policy design for vulnerable children: increasing time spent in safe, supervised settings does not guarantee academic success. The after-school program is effective in improving academic performance when children have committed parents. This finding is crucial for policy because it is not be enough to merely take children off of the streets, parents’ commitment is needed. Interestingly, results show that students’ performance at school is highly correlated with parents’ educational expectations. This correlation fosters future research that may be designed specifically to explore the causal impact of expectations on educational attainment among disadvantaged children.	es
dc.format.extent	37 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía; UM_CEE_2014_04	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	After-school program	es
dc.subject	Poverty	es
dc.subject	Education	es
dc.subject	Impact evaluation	es
dc.subject	Family	es
dc.title	Hope and commitment. Lessons from a randomize control trial in a shanty town	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Bernatzky, Marianne. Universidad de Montevideo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo. Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es