Data and Code for: Behavioral nudges reduced dropout risk among vulnerable students during the pandemic: experimental evidence from Brazil

In a companion paper (Lichand, Christen and Van Egeraat, 2022), we documented that, in effect, learning losses in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic were significantly magnified by the fact that most schools neglected students' socio-emotional skills during the transition to remote learning. Taking advantage of a cluster randomized control trial that sent students or their parents text messages targeting their socio-emotional skills during 2020, we showed that such messages were able to prevent 7.5\% of learning losses in math and 24\% in Portuguese. In this paper, we study whether the intervention also reduced dropout risk, especially amongst the students at the highest risk of abandoning school.