Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education

Dinkelman, Taryn; A., Claudia Martinez

doi:10.1257/rct.1059-1.0

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“…()). However, virtually all empirical research about providing information to high school students concentrate on information about the returns to education (Jensen ; Nguyen, ; Oreopoulos and Dunn ; Oreopoulos and Petronijevic ; Kaufman ; Dinkelman and Martinez ; McGuigan et al. ; Hoxby and Turner ; Bonilla et al.…”

Section: Policy: the Effect Of Changing The Costs Of Educationmentioning

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Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission

Cortés

Friebel

Carrizosa

2019

Ann Public Coop Econ

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We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop out and engage in criminal activities. We build on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form of a rumour and that individuals update their beliefs about the profitability of crime relative to education. These assumptions allow us to study the effect of social interactions on crime. In our model, we investigate informational spillovers from the actions of talented students to less talented students. We show that policies that decrease the cost of education for talented students may increase the vulnerability of less talented students to crime. The effect is exacerbated when students do not fully understand the underlying learning dynamics.

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Section: Policy: the Effect Of Changing The Costs Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission

Cortés

Friebel

Carrizosa

2019

Ann Public Coop Econ

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“…Some of these experiments suggest that this type of information inputs can affect participation in HE, more so for less well‐off students, thus reducing social inequalities (Loyalka et al ; Oreopoulos and Dunn ; Bettinger, Long, Oreopoulos and Sanbonmatsu ). However, other field experiments report weak or null effects (Kerr et al ; McGuigan, McNally and Wyness ; Dinkelman and Martínez ); thus, challenging the claim that information barriers about the costs of HE fuel educational inequalities.…”

Section: Introduction: Information Barriers and The Internal Differenmentioning

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Information barriers and social stratification in higher education: evidence from a field experiment

Abbiati¹,

Argentin

Barone

et al. 2017

British Journal of Sociology

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Our contribution assesses the role of information barriers for patterns of participation in Higher Education (HE) and the related social inequalities. For this purpose, we developed a large-scale clustered randomised experiment involving over 9,000 high school seniors from 62 Italian schools. We designed a counseling intervention to correct student misperceptions of the profitability of HE, that is, the costs, economic returns and chances of success of investments in different tertiary programs. We employed a longitudinal survey to test whether treated students' educational trajectories evolved differently relative to a control group. We find that, overall, treated students enrolled less often in less remunerative fields of study in favour of postsecondary vocational programmes. Most importantly, this effect varied substantially by parental social class and level of education. The shift towards vocational programmes was mainly due to the offspring of low-educated parents; in contrast, children of tertiary graduates increased their participation in more rewarding university fields. Similarly, the redistribution from weak fields to vocational programmes mainly involved the children of the petty bourgeoisie and the working class, while upper class students invested in more rewarding university fields. We argue that the status-maintenance model proposed by Breen and Goldthorpe can explain these socially differentiated treatment effects. Overall, our results challenge the claim that student misperceptions contribute to horizontal inequalities in access to HE.

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“…This importance of information in the domain of education is also reflected in the vast amount of research on information effects conducted in recent years. Numerous studies have investigated the impact of information on education‐related behaviour, documenting its positive effects on college enrolment (Bettinger et al., ; Loyalka et al., ; Castleman and Page, ), school attendance (Nguyen, ; Dinkelman and Martínez, ), the intention to acquire higher education (Oreopoulos and Dunn, ), the intended field and length of study (Barone et al., ) and aspirations (see Relikowski et al., ; Scott‐Clayton, ; Page and Scott‐Clayton, and Peter and Zambre, for reviews).…”

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Explaining Native‐Migrant Differences in Parental Knowledge about the German Educational System

Kretschmer

2018

International Migration

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To make sound educational decisions, students and their parents have to be informed about the way the educational system works. Such knowledge, however, tends to vary across social groups. This study investigates the differences in education‐related knowledge between native and migrant mothers in the German context. Empirical analyses based on a sample of native German mothers and mothers from Turkey or the former Soviet Union (N = 2076) indicate that migrant mothers know less about the German educational system than their native counterparts. An investigation of the potential sources of these knowledge gaps shows that migrants’ weaker socio‐economic status explains a substantial part of their lower level of knowledge, particularly among families of Turkish origin. Furthermore, migrants’ less profitable social network composition and lower levels of German language skills contribute to their information deficits. Based on these empirical results, the study considers opportunities for improving the knowledge base of migrant parents.

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Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission

Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission

Information barriers and social stratification in higher education: evidence from a field experiment

Explaining Native‐Migrant Differences in Parental Knowledge about the German Educational System

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