acces {rdlearn}R Documentation

ACCES Program

Description

A dataset comprising 8245 applicants to the ACCES Program across 23 different departments in Colombia, including eligibility for the ACCES Program, position score of the SABER 11, cutoff of each department, and the name of each department.

Usage

acces

Format

A data frame with 8245 rows and 4 columns:

elig

eligibility for the ACCES Program. 1: eligible; 0: not eligible

saber11

position scores of the SABER 11. We multiply the position score by -1 so that the values of the running variable above a cutoff lead to the program eligibility.

cutoff

cutoffs of each department.

department

the names of each department.

References

Melguizo, T., F. Sanchez, and T. Velasco (2016). Credit for low-income students and access to and academic performance in higher education in colombia: A regression discontinuity approach. World development 80, 61-77.


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