schoolrct: Brazilian high school financial education RCT
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Brazilian high school financial education RCT
Description
This dataset provides student-level information from a randomized controlled trial
evaluating the effect of a high school financial education program in Brazil.
Schools were randomly assigned to the program, and post-treatment financial literacy
was measured.
The data includes information on student outcomes and a variety of pre-treatment
characteristics such as survey responses and indices measuring students' ability
to save and their financial autonomy.
Usage
schoolrct
Format
A data frame containing outcomes and pre-treatment
characteristics for each student.
Details
Original data licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
This version has been lightly processed for demonstration purposes.
Source
American Economic Association replication archive
(Bruhn et al., 2016).
References
Bruhn, Miriam, Luciana de Souza Leão, Arianna Legovini, Rogelio Marchetti, and Bilal Zia.
"The impact of high school financial education: Evidence from a large-scale evaluation in Brazil."
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 4 (2016).
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Brazilian high school financial education RCT
Description
This dataset provides student-level information from a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a high school financial education program in Brazil. Schools were randomly assigned to the program, and post-treatment financial literacy was measured. The data includes information on student outcomes and a variety of pre-treatment characteristics such as survey responses and indices measuring students' ability to save and their financial autonomy.
Usage
schoolrct
Format
A data frame containing outcomes and pre-treatment characteristics for each student.
Details
Original data licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). This version has been lightly processed for demonstration purposes.
Source
American Economic Association replication archive (Bruhn et al., 2016).
References
Bruhn, Miriam, Luciana de Souza Leão, Arianna Legovini, Rogelio Marchetti, and Bilal Zia. "The impact of high school financial education: Evidence from a large-scale evaluation in Brazil." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 4 (2016).
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