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 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.

• 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/