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EnglishUsing a difference-in-differences approach, we exploit a quasi-experiment occurred in a large public university located in Southern Italy, to examine whether the introduction of a selective admission test affects students’ performances. Our analysis on this unique data set shows that a change of regime to a restrictive admission policy reduces the dropout rate of first year students by about 14%, increasing their grade point average by 0.78 points. Interestingly, in addition to the increase in the average quality of admitted students, our results suggest that positive effects of a policy change to the testbased selective access largely operate through the impact of a better quality of peers on individual performances. Results are robust to various robustness checks. Compared with other studies using a similar approach, our own provides evidence that selective admission policies can induce different educational outcomes in different geographic areas of the same national system of higher education.
| Titolo: | On the Causal Effects of Selective Admission Policies on Students’ Performances. Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in a Large Italian University |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | Using a difference-in-differences approach, we exploit a quasi-experiment occurred in a large public university located in Southern Italy, to examine whether the introduction of a selective admission test affects students’ performances. Our analysis on this unique data set shows that a change of regime to a restrictive admission policy reduces the dropout rate of first year students by about 14%, increasing their grade point average by 0.78 points. Interestingly, in addition to the increase in the average quality of admitted students, our results suggest that positive effects of a policy change to the testbased selective access largely operate through the impact of a better quality of peers on individual performances. Results are robust to various robustness checks. Compared with other studies using a similar approach, our own provides evidence that selective admission policies can induce different educational outcomes in different geographic areas of the same national system of higher education. |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12570/5769 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 5.12 Altro |
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