Treatment Effects on Parental Misinformation
| Attendance Misinformation | Grades Misinformation | Behavior Misinformation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | All | All Grades | All Grades | Misbehavior | Misbehavior | |
| Absenteeism (Surveys) | Absenteeism (Admin.) | (Surveys) | (Admin.) | (Surveys) | (Admin.) | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
| Panel A: Treatment Effects | ||||||
| T | –0.079** | –0.014 | –0.012 | –0.027 | –0.080** | –0.083** |
| [0.039] | [0.039] | [0.045] | [0.036] | [0.034] | [0.038] | |
| Panel B: Heterogeneity | ||||||
| T | –0.082** | –0.011 | –0.019 | –0.029 | –0.072** | –0.086** |
| [0.040] | [0.039] | [0.048] | [0.037] | [0.033] | [0.038] | |
| T × at-risk index | –0.012 | 0.035 | –0.091 | –0.021 | 0.081 | –0.052 |
| [0.066] | [0.047] | [0.061] | [0.046] | [0.056] | [0.056] | |
| Observationsa | 992 | 1,143 | 827 | 1,185 | 1,140 | 1,188 |
| Control mean | 0.535 | 0.392 | 0.398 | 0.319 | 0.639 | 0.470 |
Notes: Panel A shows intention-to-treat (T) estimates and its corresponding standard error estimated using Equation 1 using OLS. Panel B adds the interaction with the student-level at-risk index. At-risk index is a simple average of standardized baseline attendance, math grades, and negative behavioral notes. All models include the baseline math grade, attendance rate as control variables, classroom (randomization strata), and year fixed effects. If baseline values of baseline math grade/attendance were missing, we imputed them using the classroom-level mean and added an indicator variable for these imputed observations. Models in Panel B additionally include the at-risk index variable as a control. Column outcomes are indicator variables constructed by contrasting responses in parent surveys with those of student surveys or administrative records (shown in parentheses). Column 1 measures parental misinformation on all absenteeism (with and without parent permission in the previous two weeks) contrasting the responses of parents with those from students. Parents are classified as misinformed if they do not answer at least one of the questions or if at least one of the answers (in bracket days) provided by students and parents do not match. Column 2 measures misinformation on all absenteeism (with and without permission) contrasting parent responses with classroom books. The ends of original bracket days in absences with and without permission are added to construct new bracket days. Parents are classified as misinformed if they do not answer at least one of the questions or if classroom books’ records of absences over the previous two weeks do not fall in the range. Column 3 contrasts parent and student responses, and parents are classified as misinformed if they do not answer, or if reported grades’ brackets do not match. Column 4 measures parental misinformation regarding all grades by contrasting parent responses about the student’s last end-of-year grades with school records. Parents are treated as misinformed if they do not answer or if the absolute difference between reported and actual grades is greater than 0.5. Columns 5 and 6 measure misinformation about student misbehavior by contrasting parent answers with student answers and with information from classroom books, respectively. Using a four-value scale, parents and students were asked about the degree of agreement with the student’s misbehavior statements. For Column 5, parents are classified as misinformed if they do not answer at least one of the questions or if the average absolute difference between parent and student answers is larger than the median (0.8). For Column 6 parents are treated as misinformed if they do not answer; if the parent’s average answer is equal to or larger than the median (2), and student did not misbehave according to classroom books; or if the parent’s average answer is less than the median answer and student misbehaved in class according to books. Standard errors are clustered at the classroom level (shown in brackets). Significance: *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.
↵a Number of observations vary by column because of survey and item nonresponse.