TY - BOOK ID - 136023146 TI - The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico. AU - Avitabile, Ciro AU - de Hoyos, Rafael PY - 2015 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Education for all KW - Education gender & education KW - Gender KW - Information KW - Primary education KW - Randomized control trial KW - RCT KW - Returns to education KW - School performance KW - Secondary education KW - Tertiary education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136023146 AB - A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve student performance. The study finds that the intervention had no effects on the probability of taking a 12th grade national standardized exam three years after, a proxy for on-time high school completion, but a positive and significant impact on learning outcomes and self-reported measures of effort. The effects are larger for girls and students from households with a relatively high income. These findings are consistent with a simple model where time discount determines the increase in effort and only students with adequate initial conditions are able to translate increased effort into better outcomes. ER -