Providing information to parents

Interventions providing information to parents aim to improve schooling outcomes by changing parents’ behaviour in some way. The information provided may detail the performance of children, for instance through the use of report cards, or provide parents with information about the benefits and future returns to education. It may also include information about the overall performance of the school so that parents may question the results and demand better performance from teachers. Sharing concrete information about the economic benefits of staying in school enables parents and students to update their perceptions based on accurate data and aim to thereby change their behaviour accordingly.