College Admission Policies and Students' High School Choice: Evidence From Chile (Poster 32)

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Abstract

Increasing opportunities for students from historically disadvantaged populations and communities have been the focus of many different policies around the world. Yet, little is known about how these policy shape students' high school choices. In this paper, I examine whether a policy in Chile that mandated all institutions using the centralized system to incorporate a student's high school-specific criterion affected students' ninth-grade school choice. I exploit the adoption of the policy and the local school market structure to estimate the effects of the college admission criteria on the quality of the school students attend. Preliminary estimation indicates that students in local markets with high scope for gains are two percentage points less likely to attend a high-quality public school. Finally, I follow Otero et al. (2022) and estimate a joint school choice and outcomes model to study the effects of different policy changes in the college admission process.

Author

• Carolina Concha-Arriagada, Georgetown University
  Presenting Author