Browsing by Keyword "Test scores"
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Centralized admission and the student-college match
2017Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions is scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions ... -
Changes in test scores distribution for students of the fourth grade in Brazil: a relative distribution analysis for the years 1997-2005
2013-06In Brazil, the mean of math test scores for students of the fourth grade declined by approximately 0.2 standard deviation in the late 1990s. However, the potential changes in the distribution of scores have never been ... -
Impacto das transferências condicionadas de renda sobre a proficiência dos alunos do ensino fundamental no Brasil
2011-05-17Este artigo propõe estimar o impacto dos programas de transferência condicionada de renda sobre proficiência dos alunos no Brasil. A literatura de transferência condicionada de renda já mostrou bastantes evidências do ... -
Persistent incentives to learn: experimental evidence from Brazil
2022-03-23Financial incentives linked to test performance have been a topic of study in contexts where they exist only for a single test or year. This paper explores a policy's randomized setting in which monetary rewards are attached ...
