TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laajaj,Rachid
AU  - Moya Rodríguez,Andrés
AU  - Sánchez Torres,Fabio José
TI  - Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia 
T2  - Documentos CEDE
SN  - 1657-5334
U1  - 378.3 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Bogotá
PB  - Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE
KW  - Programa Ser Pilo Paga (Colombia)
KW  - Becas
KW  - Aspectos psicológicos
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Motivación En Educación
KW  - Investigaciones
KW  - Igualdad En la Educación
KW  - Financiación de la Educación
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 40-44)
N2  - "We study the ex-ante motivational effect of a nationwide merit and need-based scholarship in Colombia. Ser Pilo Paga (SPP) is a program that grants full scholarships at top-quality universities for 10,000 low-income students per cohort. After its introduction in 2014, SPP completely closed the socioeconomic enrollment gap for high-performing students in top universities. Using administrative data on the universe of high-school seniors, we explore whether this unprecedented change in opportunities generated an ex-ante motivational effect on eligible students? performance in the 2015 national high school exit exam. Our results from a Difference in Difference model and a Regression Discontinuity Design indicate that the need-based eligibility to the scholarship had a substantial effect on test scores at the top of the distribution, starting around the 70th percentile. For example, at the 90th percentile of the test score distribution, eligibility to the scholarship reduced the socioeconomic achievement gap by 17 percent
UR  - https://economia.uniandes.edu.co/components/com_booklibrary/ebooks/dcede2018-26.pdf
ER  -