Parental Influences on Postsecondary Decision-Making: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
Parental Influences on Postsecondary Decision-Making: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
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父母对中学后决策的影响：来自短信实验的证据
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.2778080
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
Byungmo Lee
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作者：
S. Chung;G. Jeon;Byungmo Lee
越来越多的研究指出，增加父母对子女教育的参与度非常重要。然而，很少有研究调查促使家长更多地参与大学进程是否会改善学生的成绩。通过一项大规模的实验，我们调查了向学生及其家长提供有关学生入学所需完成的任务的个性化信息是否比只向学生提供信息更能改善大学招生结果。我们利用短信作为向学生和家长提供信息和一对一大学建议的工具。在治疗部门中，文本外展使大学按时入学人数增加了3.1个百分点，具有统计学意义。我们没有发现令人信服的证据表明，与只给学生发短信相比，给家长和学生发短信能提高外展的效果。我们在更广泛的父母参与文献的背景下讨论这一结果。
A growing body of research points to the importance of increasing parental engagement in their children’s education. Yet, little research has investigated whether prompting parents to be more involved in the college process leads to improved student outcomes. We investigate, through a large-scale experiment, whether providing both students and their parents with personalized information about tasks students need to complete in order to enroll in college leads to improved college enrollment outcomes relative to providing information to students only. We utilize text messaging as a vehicle for providing information and one-on-one college advising to students and parents. Across treatment arms, the text outreach increased on-time college enrollment by a statistically significant 3.1 percentage points. We do not find compelling evidence that texting both parents and students increased the efficacy of the outreach relative to just texting students. We discuss this result in the context of the broader parental engagement literature.