High School Track Choice and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico

Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba () and Marco Pariguana
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Ciro Avitabile: UNIS - University of Surrey, BM = WB - La Banque Mondiale = The World Bank - WBG = GBM - World Bank Group = Groupe Banque Mondiale
Matteo Bobba: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Marco Pariguana: UWO - University of Western Ontario

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Abstract: We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly increase the probability of selecting vocational schools as the most preferred options vis-a-vis other more academically oriented education modalities. We find support for the hypothe- sis that the receipt of unearned income allows some students to choose a schooling career with higher out-of-pocket expenditures and higher expected returns. The ob- served change in stated preferences across tracks effectively alters school placement, and bears a positive effect on later education outcomes.

Keywords: School choice; Tracking; Financial constraints; Vocational education; Returns to education; Regression discontinuity design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05
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