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Ser Pilo Paga (spp) was an innovative program that allowed the enrollment of a large number of low-income and well-performing students to Colombian high-quality universities and, particularly, to traditionally elite private universities. This document studies the academic performance of these students and their influence on the rest of the student population at Universidad del Norte. The econometric estimates are based on more than 4.000 students of spp at this university. The results show the spp students did not lag behind. In addition, their presence had positive externalities on the academic performance of the highest-income students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Instrumental variables were implemented to estimate the consequences of effective instructional time on the performance of Colombian students in the Saber 11 examination. When increasing in a standard deviation, the effective instruction time increments the scores by 0.43 and 0.16 in Math and Language components of this test, respectively. A qualitative approach in the Atlantico department suggests that factors such as classroom ventilation, temperature, discipline, trips to school, activities different to classes, and interruptions from parents are which most affect the development of academic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Avances en PsicologÍa Latinoamericana is the property of Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

In October 2014, the Colombian government announced that it was granting ten thousand scholarships to low-income students to study at institutions of higher education. This paper examines the effect on eligibility for the program, based on 2015 Saber 11 achievement test results, in schools with and without program beneficiaries after the first wave of scholarships was granted. Using a differences in differences model, it was found that overall test scores of eligible students in schools with beneficiaries increased, and their reading scores increased by 0.03 standard deviations. In mathematics their scores increased by 0.02 standard deviations. In schools without prior beneficiaries, eligibility represented an increase of 0.09 standard deviations in the overall test score and in math, while in reading the increase was 0.08 standard deviations. These results suggest the existence of externalities in the students of schools that did not have beneficiaries of the program in the first year of incentives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]