TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avitabile,Ciro
AU  - Avitabile,Ciro
AU  - Bobba,Matteo
AU  - Pariguana,Marco
TI  - High School Track Choice and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico. 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Academic ability
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - Academic quality
KW  - Academic year
KW  - Access to university
KW  - Achievement
KW  - Achievement standards
KW  - Assignment mechanism
KW  - Average treatment effect
KW  - Career
KW  - College
KW  - College education
KW  - Curriculum
KW  - Dropout rate
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Economics of education
KW  - Education
KW  - Education for all
KW  - Education institutions
KW  - Education level
KW  - Education programs
KW  - Educational modalities
KW  - Educational outcomes
KW  - Effective schools & teachers
KW  - Elite schools
KW  - Employment
KW  - Enrollment
KW  - Ethnic composition
KW  - Exam
KW  - Fees
KW  - Geographic distribution
KW  - Grade levels
KW  - Graduate
KW  - Graduation rate
KW  - Grants
KW  - High school
KW  - High school level
KW  - High school students
KW  - High schools
KW  - Higher education
KW  - Human capital
KW  - Information technology
KW  - ITS
KW  - Labor markets
KW  - Learning
KW  - LET
KW  - Literature
KW  - Low-income students
KW  - Lower secondary
KW  - Lower secondary school
KW  - Middle school
KW  - Middle schools
KW  - Ministry of education
KW  - Mobility
KW  - Number of students
KW  - Number of students per teacher
KW  - Open access
KW  - Parental education
KW  - Pedagogical methods
KW  - Primary education
KW  - Public education
KW  - Public school
KW  - Public schools
KW  - Returns to education
KW  - Scholarships
KW  - School attendance
KW  - School census
KW  - School completion
KW  - School curriculum
KW  - School days
KW  - School facilities
KW  - School infrastructure
KW  - School level
KW  - School principals
KW  - School program
KW  - School programs
KW  - School quality
KW  - School students
KW  - School supplies
KW  - School vouchers
KW  - School year
KW  - Schooling
KW  - Secondary education
KW  - Secondary enrollment
KW  - Secondary school
KW  - Secondary schooling
KW  - Skills
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Student ability
KW  - Students
KW  - Students per teacher
KW  - Study
KW  - Teacher
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Technical education
KW  - Technical schools
KW  - Technical track
KW  - Tertiary education
KW  - Tertiary level
KW  - Test scores
KW  - Training
KW  - Tuition
KW  - Tuition costs
KW  - Tuition fees
KW  - University
KW  - University degree
KW  - University programs
KW  - Upper secondary
KW  - Upper secondary education
KW  - Upper secondary level
KW  - Vocational education
KW  - Vocational school
KW  - Vocational schools
KW  - Vouchers
KW  - Workshops
N2  - Parents and students from different socioeconomic backgrounds value differently school characteristics, but the reasons behind this preference heterogeneity are not well understood. In the context of the centralized school assignment system in Mexico City, this study analyzes how a large household income shock affects choices over high school tracks exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of the welfare program Oportunidades. The income shock significantly increases the probability of choosing the vocational track vis-a-vis the other more academic-oriented tracks. The findings suggest that the transfer relaxes the financial constraints that prevent relatively low-ability students from choosing the schooling option with higher labor market returns
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-7427
ER  -