Student support and academic performance: experiences at private universities in Mexico

Erik Canton and Andreas Blom

Education Economics, 2010, vol. 18, issue 1, 49-65

Abstract: Financial aid to students in tertiary education can contribute to human capital accumulation through two channels: increased enrollment and improved student performance. We pay particular attention to the latter channel, and study its quantitative importance in the context of a student support program from the Sociedad de Fomento a la Educacion Superior (Society for the Promotion of Higher Education) (SOFES) implemented at private universities in Mexico. Administrative data provided by SOFES are analyzed using a regression-discontinuity design. The advantage of the regression-discontinuity method is that it represents a natural experiment with randomly assigned treatment so that selection issues are minimized. The empirical results suggest that this financial aid package (loans and scholarships) contributes to better academic performance.

Keywords: higher education; financial aid; academic performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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