Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia

We study the ex-ante motivational effect of a nationwide merit and need-based scholarship in Colombia, which granted full scholarships to low-income students at high-quality universities. The results from a regression discontinuity design indicate that the opportunity to receive the scholarship sign...

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Autores:

Laajaj, Rachid
Moya, Andrés
Sánchez, Fabio

Tipo de recurso:

Work document

Fecha de publicación:

2018

Institución:

Universidad de los Andes

Repositorio:

Séneca: repositorio Uniandes

Idioma:

spa

OAI Identifier:

oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/41025

Acceso en línea:

http://hdl.handle.net/1992/41025

Palabra clave:

Equality of opportunity
Human capital accumulation
Socioeconomic achievement gap
H52, I24, I25, O15

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openAccess

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/