Chilean Student Financial Aid Experiment with 6,000 Participants

Over 6,000 Chilean 8th graders in poor urban schools were randomly assigned to information treatment or control groups in a field experiment. The study combined survey and administrative data to measure changes in financial aid knowledge, absenteeism, test scores, and enrollment. It was authored by Taryn Dinkelman and published on paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the effect of financial aid information on student absenteeism based on administrative records
• Comparing behavioral responses between high- and low-ability students based on baseline grades
• Evaluating the impact of parental involvement by comparing 'Student' and 'Family' treatment groups
• Investigating the relationship between improved financial aid knowledge and subsequent educational outcomes

Strengths

• Randomized field experiment design with over 6,000 participants
• Combined survey and administrative data sources
• Specific results reported, such as a 14% reduction in absenteeism

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Chilean urban school setting

Provenance

Source

Taryn Dinkelman

Collection Method

Randomized field experiment combining survey and administrative data

Geography

Chile, poor urban schools