Credit for low-income students and access to and academic performance in higher education in Colombia: a regression discontinuity approach

This study evaluates the impact of a national level subsidized loan program, ACCES, on a number of higher education outcomes (i.e., increase in enrollment rates, decrease in dropout rates, and increase in academic performance) of low-income students in Colombia. We use national level data along with...

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Autores:
Melguizo Uribe, Tatiana
Sánchez Torres, Fabio José
Velasco Rodríguez, Tatiana
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8567
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8567
Palabra clave:
Higher education
Credit
Access
Academic performance
ACCES
Crédito educativo - Colombia
Educación superior - Financiación - Colombia
Indicadores de gestión - Colombia
Rendimiento académico - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
I22, I23
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description
Summary:This study evaluates the impact of a national level subsidized loan program, ACCES, on a number of higher education outcomes (i.e., increase in enrollment rates, decrease in dropout rates, and increase in academic performance) of low-income students in Colombia. We use national level data along with a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the program. The results confirm that the program was effective in terms of increasing the potential number of low-income students at the margin who would have enrolled in college, decreasing the number of students who dropped out, and increasing their academic outcomes.