A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay

Nicolas Ajzenman, Laura Becerra Luna, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Florencia Lopez Boo, Marcelo Perez Alfaro, Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría and Mercedes Mateo Diaz
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz

Journal of Development Economics, 2022, vol. 159, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Preschool; Early childhood Development; Behavioral; Nudge; Uruguay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102984

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