Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools

Volume: 81, Issue: 1, Pages: 57 - 83
Published: Jan 1, 2014
Abstract
This article provides evidence that schools can influence parents’ involvement in education, and this has causal effects on pupils’ behaviour. Furthermore, it shows how the impact of more involved parents on their children is amplified at the class level by peer group interaction. We build on a large-scale controlled experiment run in a French deprived educational district, where parents of middle-school children were invited to participate in a...
Paper Details
Title
Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools
Published Date
Jan 1, 2014
Volume
81
Issue
1
Pages
57 - 83
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