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Project description

This research shows that teacher and administration absences can negatively affect students’ reading and math abilities.Working with the Peruvian Ministry of Education (MINEDU) and the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), we tested whether attendance could be influenced by sending different behaviorally informed messages by email. One email message conveyed the current level of attendance of one’s school district the “social norm” while the other built on teachers’ pro-social motivations by highlighting the positive effect of teacher attendance on student performance.

Detailed information

Final report: Is there a final report presenting the results and conclusions of this project?

Yes

Final report

See the final report

Pre-analysis plan: Is there a pre-analysis plan associated with this registration?

No

Additional information

<h3>Does a third party implement the intervention or is this a collaboration with another team?</h3><div class="csp"><p>Peruvian Ministry of Education<br /> (MINEDU) and the UK’s Behavioural Insights<br /> Team (BIT),</p> </div>

Peru

Peru

Who is behind the project?

Institution: World Bank

Team: eMBeD, Mind Behaviour and Development team

Project status:

Completed

Methods

Methodology: Experiment, Field Experiment

Could you self-grade the strength of the evidence generated by this study?: 1

Start date: 09/01/2017

What is the project about?

Policy area(s): Education

Topic(s): Attendance

Behavioural tool(s): Behavioural Diagnostic

Date published:

25 June 2021

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