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TY - RPRT
TI - Too little or too much? Actionable advice in an early-childhood text messaging experiment
AU - Cortes, Kalena
AU - Fricke, Hans
AU - Loeb, Susanna
AU - Song, David
T2 - NBER Working Paper Series
AB - Text-message based parenting programs have proven successful in improving parental engagement and preschoolers’ literacy development. The tested programs have provided a combination of (a) general information about important literacy skills, (b) actionable advice (i.e.,specific examples of such activities), and (c) encouragement. The regularity of the texts – each week throughout the school year – also provided nudges to focus parents’ attention on their children. This study seeks to identify mechanisms of the overall effect of such programs. It investigates whether the actionable advice alone drives previous study’s results and whether additional texts of actionable advice improve program effectiveness. The findings provide evidence that text messaging programs can supply too little or too much information. A single
text per week is not as effective at improving parenting practices as a set of three texts that also include information and encouragement, but a set of five texts with additional actionable advice is
also not as effective as the three-text approach. The results on children’s literacy development depend strongly on the child’s pre-intervention literacy skills. For children in the lowest quarter
of the pre-treatment literacy assessments, only providing one example of an activity decreases literacy scores by 0.15 standard deviations relative to the original intervention. Literacy scores of children in higher quarters are marginally higher with only one tip per week. We find no positive
effects of increasing to five texts per week.
DA - 2018/07//
PY - 2018
DP - www.nber.org
LA - EN
PB - National Bureau of Economic Research
SN - w24827
ST - Too little or too much?
UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24827.pdf
Y2 - 2020/05/03/20:45:06
L1 - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24827.pdf
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TY - RPRT
TI - Too little or too much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
AU - Cortes, Kalena E.
AU - Fricke, Hans
AU - Loeb, Susanna
AU - Song, David S.
AB - Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
DA - 2018/07/16/
PY - 2018
DP - www.nber.org
LA - en
PB - National Bureau of Economic Research
SN - w24827
ST - Too little or too much?
UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24827
Y2 - 2021/06/04/12:18:41
L1 - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24827/w24827.pdf
L2 - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24827
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