Book/Printed Material Long-term consequences of secondary school vouchers evidence from administrative records in Colombia

Title

• Long-term consequences of secondary school vouchers evidence from administrative records in Colombia

Summary

• "Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were assigned by lottery, program effects can reliably be assessed by comparing lottery winners and losers. Estimates using administrative records suggest the PACES program increased secondary school completion rates by 15-20 percent. Correcting for the greater percentage of lottery winners taking college admissions tests, the program increased test scores by two-tenths of a standard deviation in the distribution of potential test scores. Boys, who have lower scores than girls in this population, show larger test score gains, especially in math"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

• Angrist, Joshua David
• Bettinger, Eric
• Kremer, Michael, 1964-
• National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

• Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2004.

Headings

• -  Educational vouchers--Colombia
• -  Poor children--Education--Colombia
• -  School choice--Colombia

Notes

• -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/6/2005.
• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Also available in print.
• -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HB1

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2005615173
• http://papers.nber.org/papers/w10713 External

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2005615173

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2005615173

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