Data and Code for "When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience -- Evidence from School Parents in Brazil"

Do informational interventions work because they lead subjects to merely updatebeliefs in the right direction or, to a large extent, because they increasethe salience of the decision they target? We randomly assign parents to eitheran information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on theirchild’s attendance and school effort, or a salience group, who receives messagesthat try to redirect their attention without child-specific information. Whileinformation has large impacts on attendance, test scores and grade promotionrelative to the control group, outcomes in the salience group improve by atleast as much.