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    Tripping at the Finish Line Experimental Evidence on the Road of Misperceptions on Secondary School Completion

    Abstract
    In Argentina, more than 90 percent of teenagers are enrolled in upper secondary school, but only 50 percent graduate on time. I conducted a field experiment in Salta, Argentina, to test if lack of information about how inputs translate into outputs may prevent students who attend classes until the last day of high school from getting their diploma. To measure the relative importance of this treatment, I conducted a returns-to-education information intervention in a separate treatment arm. Providing information about the probability of graduation conditional on current standing and discussing intermediate steps to translate effort during students’ senior year of high school into graduation raises timely high school graduation by 5 percentage points, a 10 percent increase relative to the control group. Poor-performing students at baseline respond most to the treatment. The returns-to-education arm increases graduation rates by 10 percentage points. Both treatments increase the probability of university en-rollment by 5 percentage points, more than 30 percent relative to the control group. Together, these findings indicate that inaccu-rate beliefs about own future performance explain a significant share of the “graduation gap.”
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    Desarrollo social | Educación | Estudiantes | Evaluación de impacto | Investigación socioeconómica | Jóvenes | Sector académico
     
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    Argentina
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    https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/1912
    Date
    2022-06-14
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