TY - JOUR
T1 - A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay
AU - Ajzenman, Nicolas
AU - Luna, Laura Becerra
AU - Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel
AU - Lopez Boo, Florencia
AU - Perez Alfaro, Marcelo
AU - Vásquez-Echeverría, Alejandro
AU - Mateo Diaz, Mercedes
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - This paper presents the results of a nationwide, low-cost intervention that used messages informed by behavioral economics and delivered through the government's official mobile app to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay. We document null results for attendance and child development outcomes. We also estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATE) across individuals using causal forest algorithms. We present exploratory evidence that absenteeism and some measures of cognitive development might have improved for children around the median of the baseline distribution of attendance rate.
AB - This paper presents the results of a nationwide, low-cost intervention that used messages informed by behavioral economics and delivered through the government's official mobile app to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay. We document null results for attendance and child development outcomes. We also estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATE) across individuals using causal forest algorithms. We present exploratory evidence that absenteeism and some measures of cognitive development might have improved for children around the median of the baseline distribution of attendance rate.
KW - Behavioral
KW - Early childhood Development
KW - Nudge
KW - Preschool
KW - Uruguay
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102984
DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102984
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140734672
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 159
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
M1 - 102984
ER -