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Setting an example? Spillover effects of Peruvian Magnet Schools

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  • Mariel Bedoya

    (Innovations for Poverty Action)

  • Bruno Gonzaga

    (Central Reserve Bank of Peru)

  • Alejandro Herrera Jiménez

    (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD))

  • Karen Espinoza

    (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)

Abstract

In this paper we use a Multi-Cutoff Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate spillover effects of students enrolled into Peruvian public magnet schools, Colegios de Alto Rendimiento (COAR), on educational outcomes of younger students in their schools of origin. Using administrative data from the Ministry of Education for 2016, we find that having at least one student admitted in a COAR school causes some negative spillover effects on math test scores of students from the following cohort. No evidence of statistically significant results is found for verbal and history test scores, nor for self-reported educational expectations. We discuss potential causes and reasons that may explain our results.

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  • Mariel Bedoya & Bruno Gonzaga & Alejandro Herrera Jiménez & Karen Espinoza, 2019. "Setting an example? Spillover effects of Peruvian Magnet Schools," Development Research Working Paper Series 01/2019, Institute for Advanced Development Studies.
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    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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