and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …

schools. Instituted in 2008, the “Broadband at School” federal program in Brazil aimed to bring broadband to all urban public … examine the effect of “Broadband at School” program on students' academic performance. Using the system generalized method …

This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … undergraduate courses in Brazil may provide a new instrument of regional development. In this sense, if this process happens in less … favored municipalities, there will be a new element of attraction of students that will be qualified and may stay there …

one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than … teachers, ranging from 0.05 to 0.11 standard deviations. Low income students are also more negatively affected when their …

-person classes return, interventions to motivate students to remain in school until then have been overlooked. In particular …-person classes. Methods: We conducted a cluster-randomized control trial with 18,256 high-school students in the State of Goiás …, Brazil, randomizing 2/3 of them to receive behavioral nudges through text messages, between June and December 2020. The …

or more. Having said that, interventions to motivate students to remain in school until in-person classes return have … been overlooked. Using a cluster-randomized control trial in the State of Goiás, Brazil, this paper shows that behavioral … nudges sent through text messages directly to students’ phones decreased dropout risk by 26% over the course of the 2020 …

In this article, it is explored whether quota students who were enrolled in presential courses at federal institutions … quota students who did not receive this benefit. For this analysis, it was used data collected from the Tertiary Education …