Todd Rogers
Parent Engagement Interventions are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd Out of Parental Investment
Topics: Families and CommunitiesTags: ParentingMany educational interventions encourage parents to engage in their child’s education as if parental time and attention is limitless. Sadly, though, it is not. Successfully encouraging certain parental investments may crowd out other productive behaviors.
Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications
Tags: AbsenteeismMany states mandate districts or schools notify parents when students have missed multiple unexcused days of school. We report a randomized experiment (N = 131,312) evaluating the impact of sending parents truancy notifications modified to target behavioral barriers that can… more →