کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354690 1434839 2011 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Conditional cash penalties in education: Evidence from the Learnfare experiment
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Conditional cash penalties in education: Evidence from the Learnfare experiment
چکیده انگلیسی

Wisconsin's influential Learnfare initiative is a conditional cash penalty program that sanctions a family's welfare grant when covered teens fail to meet school attendance targets. In the presence of reference-dependent preferences, Learnfare provides uniquely powerful financial incentives for student performance. However, a 10-county random-assignment evaluation suggested that Learnfare had no sustained effects on school enrollment and attendance. This study evaluates the data from this randomized field experiment. In Milwaukee County, the Learnfare procedures were poorly implemented and the random-assignment process failed to produce balanced baseline traits. However, in the nine remaining counties, Learnfare increased school enrollment by 3.5 percent (effect size = 0.08) and attendance by 4.5 percent (effect size = 0.10). These results suggest that well-designed financial incentives may be an effective mechanism for improving the school persistence of at-risk students at scale.


► Wisconsin's seminal Learnfare program sanctioned family welfare grants when covered teens failed to meet school-attendance targets.
► This unique incentive program leveraged loss aversion and targeted attendance, not test scores or grades.
► An earlier random-assignment evaluation suggested that Learnfare was ineffective.
► The original evaluation did not correct for the non-random attrition or randomization failure.
► This econometrically themed reanalysis indicates Learnfare generated cost-effective, statistically significant attendance increases.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics of Education Review - Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2011, Pages 924–937
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