Treatment effects on grades and admission test scores Notes: This figure shows the treatment effect of the PATHS intervention on children's standardized grades and children's test scores on the centralized admission test for academic high school. Specifications are estimated using OLS using controls for baseline child and household characteristics. Child controls include the age and gender of the child, having Swiss citizenship, measures for anxiety and depressivity, ADHD, non-aggressive externalizing problem behaviour, non-aggressive conduct disorder, opposition and defiance, prosociality, four measures of aggressive behaviour, and four measures of overall behaviour. Household controls include household income, mother's and father's education level, age of the mother, indicator variables for the mother's having Swiss citizenship and being born in Switzerland, and indicator variables for a single-parent household, a household that received financial aid, and a household that experienced financial problems. All models include strata fixed effects for the level of randomization. The regressions use inverse probability (IP) weighting, with weights constructed by regressing an indicator for whether we observe any grade or test score and then taking the square of the inverse prediction. In Model 1, we use the full set of controls except child SBQ when estimating the weights; in Model 2, we use the full set of controls when estimating the weights. Estimates for admission test scores are based on the score obtained from the first time taking the test. Grades in primary school correspond to the teacher-given grades obtained before taking the admission test. Each point estimate is shown with the respective 90% and 95% confidence intervals calculated based on standard errors clustered at the school level.
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