Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomized evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay

Balsa, Ana Inés; Cid, Alejandro; Zardo, Ana Laura

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Balsa, Ana Inés
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Zardo, Ana Laura
dc.coverage.spatial	Uruguay	es
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-06T18:29:17Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-06T18:29:17Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1369
dc.description.abstract	We conducted a randomized evaluation of three privately managed middle schools in Uruguay aimed at providing education opportunities to adolescents from low income socioeconomic status. At 3-year follow-up, treatment students fare better in terms of academic promotion and school retention. Students in treatment schools, present also better mental health, as represented by lower rates of internalizing behaviors and social problems than students in the control group. In addition to tutoring and other learning strategies reported in previous qualitative analyses of these schools, our findings suggest that a culture of high expectations, a caring and disciplined school climate, and parental involvement in the school could account for some of the observed differences in academic trajectories and mental health.	es
dc.format.extent	60 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Adolescents	es
dc.subject	Education	es
dc.title	Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomized evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Balsa, Ana Inés. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo. Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Zardo, Ana Laura. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es