Can Scholarships Increase High School Graduation Rates? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico
This paper studies the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into the...
| Main Authors: | de Hoyos, Rafael, Attanasio, Orazio, Meghir, Costas |
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/976601555936652424/Can-Scholarships-Increase-High-School-Graduation-Rates-Evidence-from-A-Randomized-Control-Trial-in-Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31581 |
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