TrygFonden's Child Research Seminar Series: Alessandro Toppeta, Stockholm University

Title: Effective Families or Effective Schools? Experimental Evidence on Fostering Children's Numeracy

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Tidspunkt

Torsdag 24. oktober 2024,  kl. 12:15 - 13:30

Sted

Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, building 2630(K), Room 101

Abstract:  This paper studies if high-quality primary education can serve as an equalizer for children exposed to diverse rearing practices at home in Colombia. Building on well-established literatures demonstrating that parenting interventions and teacher professional development programs can effectively support children's learning, we randomly assign children to a sequence of treatment combinations: only a parenting intervention, only a teacher intervention, both interventions, or no intervention. The two treatments, both individually and together, have a similar effect on children's standardized math scores, with an impact of 0.20 standard deviations  compared to receiving no interventions. We find no complementarities between the two interventions, suggesting that effective schools can compensate for inequalities in family rearing practices.