论文标题
高等教育的可用性如何影响激励措施？来自巴西联邦大学空缺的证据
How the Availability of Higher Education Affects Incentives? Evidence from Federal University Openings in Brazil
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论文摘要
本文研究了大学开放对附近潜在学生资本积累的激励措施的影响。开幕式导致上大学的成本下降是由于距离的降低而导致了增加努力的动力 - 这表明对学生的成绩产生了积极影响。我使用具有双向固定效果的事件研究方法来检索因果估计，从而利用了在不同时间接受治疗的学生之间的变化 - 减轻政府对新大学地点的决定造成的偏见。结果表明，对于建立大学的市政当局，平均增加了0.038美元的测试等级标准偏差，并且对一系列潜在问题（包括事件研究模型中的一些常见问题）来说是强大的。
This paper studies the impact of an university opening on incentives for human capital accumulation of prospective students in its neighborhood. The opening causes an exogenous fall on the cost to attend university, through the decrease in distance, leading to an incentive to increase effort - shown by the positive effect on students' grades. I use an event study approach with two-way fixed effects to retrieve a causal estimate, exploiting the variation across groups of students that receive treatment at different times - mitigating the bias created by the decision of governments on the location of new universities. Results show an average increase of $0.038$ standard deviations in test grades, for the municipality where the university was established, and are robust to a series of potential problems, including some of the usual concerns in event study models.
