El efecto del Instituto Nacional: evidencia a partir de un diseño de regresión discontinua

Bucarey Alonso (), Jorquera Miguel (), Pablo Muñoz and Sergio Urzua
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Bucarey Alonso: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
Jorquera Miguel: Fiscalía Nacional Económica, Santiago

Estudios Públicos, 2014, issue 133, 37-68

Abstract: This paper estimates the effect of attending one of the most important elite public high schools in Chile, the Instituto Nacional. Using data from its admission tests, we implement a regression discontinuity approach to estimate the impact of this high school on students’ academic performance. Our measure of academic impact is the Chilean college admission exam (PSU). The estimated impact associated with the event “attending the Instituto Nacional” is 26,13 additional points on PSU (0.25 standard deviations). Due to its nature, we interpret this result as a local causal effect.

Keywords: Elite schools; regression discontinuity; impact of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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