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