The effects of a centralized college admission mechanism on migration and college enrollmentevidence from Brazil

Resumo

Although decentralized assignment mechanisms have been increasingly replaced by centralized systems as part of education reforms, empirical evidences of such transitions are limited. In this paper, we investigate the effects of introducing a centralized admission system that allocates students to Higher Education Institutions on migration and college enrollment. We use rich data from Brazilian Higher Education to construct measures of migration and dropout. Exploiting time variation in adoption of a centralized mechanism across institutions, we find that the adoption of a centralized mechanism increases inter-municipality and interstate mobility of first-year students by 3.8 percentage points (p.p.) and 1.6 p.p., respectively. The system is also associated with an increase by 4.5 p.p. in dropout rate of first-year students. Overall, our findings suggest that migration and strategic behaviors during the application process play a crucial role for an increase in dropout.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2015

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/13875

Temas

EconomiaEducação

Palavras-chave

Ensino superiorMigraçãoEvasãoHigher educationMigrationDropoutTwo-sided matchingEconomiaEvasão escolarAvaliação educacionalUniversidades e faculdades - IngressoEstudantes - Avaliação