Student Support and Academic Performance: Experiences at Private Universities in Mexico

• Tác giả: Erik Canton
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 598.19 Ayes (Birds)
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 296385
• Chủ đề: 1. Higher Education and Research Institutions I230; 2. Human Capital; 3. Labor Productivity J240; 4. Occupational Choice; 5. Skills

Tóm tắt

Financial aid to students in tertiary education can contribute to human capital accumulation through two channels: increased enrollment and improved student performance. We pay particular attention to the latter channel, and study its quantitative importance in the context of a student support program from the Sociedad de Fomento a la Educacion Superior (Society for the Promotion of Higher Education) (SOFES) implemented at private universities in Mexico. Administrative data provided by SOFES are analyzed using a regression-discontinuity design. The advantage of the regression-discontinuity method is that it represents a natural experiment with randomly assigned treatment so that selection issues are minimized. The empirical results suggest that this financial aid package (loans and scholarships) contributes to better academic performance.