Ocorrerá no dia 23/08/2023, Quarta-Feira, às 16h na sala 401A-FCE o Seminário de Pesquisa “College application costs, centralized admission, and college enrollment for students with disabilities” na área de Economia Aplicada pelo Profº Guilherme Stein (Kognita).
Autores: Guilherme Stein (Kognita), Aline Dalcin (PPGE/UFRGS) e Hugo Jales (Syracuse University)
Abstract: We study the effects a centralized university admission system has on the demographic distribution of students admitted to higher education institutions, with a focus on a particular type of disadvantaged group: students with disability. Centralizing the application process diminishes mobility costs that are salient in the decision of individuals with a disability to apply to a university. We use the implementation of the Brazilian centralized college admission system (SiSU) to test our hypothesis. Our results show that exposure to SiSU by an institutiondegree pair has a significant and sizable effect on the share of new students with disabilities. Institution-degree pairs that have been exposed to nine years of SiSU have an average of 0.77 new students with disabilities more than institution-degree pairs that were not exposed. This is a sizable effect considering that the average number of new students with disabilities in 2018 is 0.60.