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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Laajaj, Rachid
Moya, Andrés
Sánchez, Fabio
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2018
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Universidad de los Andes
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Equality of opportunity
Human capital accumulation
Socioeconomic achievement gap
H52, I24, I25, O15
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
title Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
spellingShingle Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
Equality of opportunity
Human capital accumulation
Socioeconomic achievement gap
H52, I24, I25, O15
title_short Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
title_full Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
title_fullStr Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
title_sort Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital Accumulation: Motivational Effect of a Nationwide Scholarship in Colombia
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Laajaj, Rachid
Moya, Andrés
Sánchez, Fabio
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Laajaj, Rachid
Moya, Andrés
Sánchez, Fabio
dc.subject.keyword.none.fl_str_mv Equality of opportunity
Human capital accumulation
Socioeconomic achievement gap
topic Equality of opportunity
Human capital accumulation
Socioeconomic achievement gap
H52, I24, I25, O15
dc.subject.jel.none.fl_str_mv H52, I24, I25, O15
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