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Title: Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools.

Author(s): Francesco Avvisati, Marc Gurgand, Nina Guyon and Eric Maurin

Publication Date: September 2010

Keyword(s): Child support, Classroom Peer-Effects, Cluster Randomized Trial and Parental Involvement

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: This paper presents a randomized field experiment conducted in a set of French middle schools located in a deprived educational district near Paris. Parents in test groups were invited to participate in a simple program of training sessions on how to get better involved in their children?s education. At the end of the school-year, we find that treated families effectively increased their school- and home-based involvement activities. Children of families who were directly targeted by the program developed more positive behavior and attitudes in school, and had less literacy problems. Importantly, for all behavioral outcomes we find large spillover effects of the program on classmates of treated families. This experiment proves that schools are able to increase parents' awareness and that parental inputs have strong effects on pupil behavior. Our results on spillovers demonstrate that similar initiatives can be effective even in case of low parental take-up of the program.

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Avvisati, F, Gurgand, M, Guyon, N and Maurin, E. 2010. 'Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools.'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8020