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Externalidades en el desempeno académico de la provisión de incentivos: evidencia del programa Ser Pilo Paga

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  • Sergio Arango

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In October 2014, the Colombian government announced that it was granting ten thousand scholarships to low-income students to study at institutions of higher education. This paper examines the effect on eligibility for the program, based on 2015 Saber 11 achievement test results, in schools with and without program beneficiaries after the first wave of scholarships was granted. Using a differences in differences model, it was found that overall test scores of eligible students in schools with beneficiaries increased, and their reading scores increased by 0.03 standard deviations. In mathematics their scores increased by 0.02 standard deviations. In schools without prior beneficiaries, eligibility represented an increase of 0.09 standard deviations in the overall test score and in math, while in reading the increase was 0.08 standard deviations. These results suggest the existence of externalities in the students of schools that did not have beneficiaries of the program in the first year of incentives.

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  • Sergio Arango, 2017. "Externalidades en el desempeno académico de la provisión de incentivos: evidencia del programa Ser Pilo Paga," Revista de Economía del Rosario, Universidad del Rosario, vol. 20(2), pages 175-212, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000151:017963
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    Keywords

    Academic performance; Externalities; Incentives; Ser Pilo Paga;
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    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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