assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child’s attendance and …-specific information. While information has large impacts on attendance, test scores and grade promotion relative to the control group …

assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child's attendance and …-specific information. We find that information makes parents more accurate about students' absences, and has large impacts on their …, and lead them to independently acquire additional information about student performance. Our results have implications for …

assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child’s attendance and …-specific information. We find that information makes parents more accurate about student attendance, and has large impacts on their test …, although not about grade levels. Such coarse belief updating is consistent with independent information acquisition in response …