Full-time Education Program and School Performance in Sao Paulo

Yuri Passuelo (), Veneziano C. Araujo (), Eloiza R. F. de Almeida () and Solange Goncalves ()

No 2023_15, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: The full-time school programs have been one of the main public policies used by the different Brazilian administrative spheres in an attempt to improve educational outcome. This work evaluates the effect of the full-time school program PEI in the public schools of the state of São Paulo, for the Portuguese and mathematics exams of the Prova Brazil exam between the years 2013 and 2017, for students of the last year of elementary and junior high school, through Average Treatment Effect on Treated and Propensity Score Matching. The main results indicate that the program obtain, on average, higher levels of proficiency both in Portuguese and in Mathematics both in the 5th and 9th years of elementary school. In addition, greater proficiency levels are observed in Mathematics than in Portuguese.

Keywords: Full-time school,; public policy; Prova Brasil exam; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 H52 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-12-20, Revised 2024-01-11
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