Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education

Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martínez A.
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Claudia Martínez A.: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile
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The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, vol. 96, issue 2, 244-257

Abstract: We investigate the impacts of providing low-income Chilean adolescents with information about how to finance higher education and ask whether providing parents with the same information magnifies the effects on schooling outcomes. We randomly assigned eighth graders and some parents to receive information about aid for higher education. Exposure to information raised college preparatory high school enrollment, primary school attendance, and financial aid knowledge, with gains concentrated among medium‐ and high‐grade students. Parental exposure to information did not significantly magnify these effects. Our results demonstrate that access to relevant information about financial aid affects important schooling choices long before tertiary education begins. © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords: schools; higher education; financial aid; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 I25 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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