Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279563 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 64
Publisher: 
University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), Waterloo
Abstract: 
In 2014, the government of Colombia launched a unique meanstested and merit-based scholarship program called Ser Pilo Paga. We examine the effects of this scholarship on student performance on the country's university exit exam and other educational outcomes. Exploiting thresholds for socioeconomic status and test score performance on the high school exit exam for Ser Pilo Paga eligibility using a multi-score fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that the scholarship's effects on test scores to be quite limited in most cases. However, recipients of the scholarship do exhibit significant differences in enrollment, persistence, and test taking behaviour compared to non-recipients.
Subjects: 
Colombia
Saber Pro
scholarships
Ser Pilo Paga,test scores
JEL: 
I22
I23
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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