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dc.titleLearning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
dc.contributor.authorBobba, Matteo
dc.contributor.authorFrisancho, Verónica
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageMexico
dc.date.available2016-05-04T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2016-11-21T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academicperformance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks the variance of individual ability distributions. Guided by a simple Bayesian model, the paper empirically documents the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences on high school tracks enabled by the intervention affects schooling trajectories, with better-performing students being assigned into more academically oriented options.
dc.format.extent39
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011772
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Learning-about-Oneself-The-Effects-of-Performance-Feedback-on-School-Choice.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectVocational and Technical Education
dc.subjectSchool Attendance
dc.subjectHigh School
dc.subjectEducation Enrollment
dc.subjectHigher Education
dc.subjectLabor Market
dc.subjectSchool Choice
dc.subjectAcademic Performance
dc.subjectEducational Attainment
dc.subject.jelcodeD83 - Search • Learning • Information and Knowledge • Communication • Belief • Unawareness
dc.subject.jelcodeI21 - Analysis of Education
dc.subject.jelcodeI24 - Education and Inequality
dc.subject.jelcodeJ24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity
dc.subject.keywordsschool choice;biased beliefs;Bayesian updating;information
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
idb.operationRG-K1416
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