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Les extendemos la invitación al seminario que organiza el Departamento de Economía, en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado "From Classrooms to Adulthood: Long-Term Impacts of Teacher and Student Incentives in Mexico".

Expone: Mauricio Romero, ITAM - Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Coautores: Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, Jorge Pérez Pérez, Mauricio Romera, Petra E.Todd, Kenneth I Wolpin y Wellong Zhang.

Abstract: This paper evaluates the long-term effects of the Aligning Learning Incentives (ALI) experiment, which randomly assigned 88 federal high schools to a control group and three treatment arms —student incentives, teacher incentives, and combined incentives — with approximately 97,000 students participating across three academic years (2008–2011). Previous evaluations demonstrated short-run test-score gains of 0.2–0.3σ for treatment groups that offered student payments, but could not determine how much of the impact reflected increased test-taking effort rather than enhanced learning. We link the original experimental data with national administrative records on standardized tests, professional degree registries, social program enrollment, formal-sector employment, and voter rolls to trace effects over a 10–15 year horizon. Student incentives increased post-secondary degree attainment by approximately 4–5 percentage points (off a 22% baseline) and reduced enrollment in federal welfare programs by approximately 4–7 percentage points. These findings suggest that performance-based incentives during adolescence can generate positive lasting effects.

El formato será presencial en la sala P-303.

Saludos cordiales,

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