We examine how a remedial education program for primary school-age children aaffects parental aspirations about their children’s future. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether expectations on labor market perspectives and educational achievement change as a consequence of exposure to the Roma Teaching Assistant Program. We argue that these changes are likely to occur mainly through a role model mechanism: in the program all the assistants are Roma and from the same social background of the pupils they help. The presence of a person belonging to the same community, who proved to be successful, motivates parents to believe theirchildren can succeed. Our results show that parents of pupils in treated schools expect higher returns to education for their kids. They are also more likely to expect them to achieve a secondary level of education.

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低期望的诅咒

我们研究了针对小学适龄儿童的补习教育计划如何影响父母对其子女未来的期望。使用我们在塞尔维亚收集的原始调查数据，我们调查对劳动力市场观点和教育成就的期望是否因接触罗姆教学助理计划而改变。我们认为，这些变化很可能主要是通过榜样机制发生的：在该计划中，所有助手都是罗姆人，并且来自他们所帮助学生的相同社会背景。事实证明，成功属于同一个社区的人的存在促使父母相信他们的孩子可以成功。我们的结果表明，接受过治疗的学校的学生家长期望孩子获得更高的教育收益。