Making a Song and Dance About It: The Effectiveness of Teaching Children Vocabulary with Animated Music Videos

This work was supported by J-PAL. This study was registered on the AEA RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0002631) and received approval from the Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB from the University of Chicago (IRB17-1609). We are grateful to the staff at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab, led by Michelle Park Michelini, for invaluable effort in implementing this intervention, and Harkirat Kaur for excellent research assistance. We are grateful to Shane DeRolf for his efforts not only in developing the Big Word Club but also in enthusiastically embracing the evaluation process. We also thank participants at the Advances with Field Experiments and AEFP conferences for helpful comments. 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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