Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages

Julian Martinez-Correa provided excellent research assistance and multiple comments that improved the manuscript. Anna Koh Lee, Santiago Perez Vincent, Dario Romero, and Dario Salcedo provided excellent research assistance in early stages of the paper. We thank Bernardita Muñoz, Daniela Alvarado and Paula Espinoza for superb support in fieldwork. Thomas Dishion and Anne Mauricio gave fabulous guidance on communicating with parents and the Family Check-Up approach. The authors gratefully acknowledge funding through J-PAL's Post-Primary Education Initiative, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Spencer Foundation, and a Chilean FONIDE grant (No. 711272). IRB approval: MIT COUHES Protocol # 1308005856. The study is registered as AEARCTR-0000458. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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