College access spillover on high school performance: Evidence from college openings

IF 2 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics of Education Review Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI:10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102730

Tales Rands, Bruno Barsanetti

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Abstract

We investigate the effects of an expansion of a tuition-free technical college on local high-school academic performance. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we exploit the staggered opening of new technical colleges in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, which we compare with student grades on a no-stakes test taken in the last year of high school. We document that the opening of one such college has a positive effect of 0.106 of a standard deviation on the performance in the exam. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that local access to tuition-free colleges increases high-school students’ incentives to learn.

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大学入学对高中表现的溢出效应：来自大学开设的证据

我们调查了免学费技术学院的扩张对当地高中学业成绩的影响。采用差异中的差异策略，我们利用巴西圣保罗州错开的新技术学院，将其与学生在高中最后一年参加的无风险测试中的成绩进行比较。我们证明，开设一所这样的学院对考试成绩有0.106个标准差的积极影响。我们的研究结果与假设一致，即在当地进入免学费大学会增加高中生的学习动机。

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Economics of Education Review Multiple-

CiteScore

3.30

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4.50%

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61 days

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