Data and Code for: The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Emilio Borghesan, University of Pennsylvania; Gabrielle Vasey, Concordia University

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Project Citation:

Borghesan, Emilio, and Vasey, Gabrielle. Data and Code for: The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E184985V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper analyzes a large-scale and long-running distance education program in Mexico. We estimate marginal treatment effects (MTEs) for learning in math and Spanish in telesecundarias relative to traditional Mexican secondary schools using an empirical framework that allows for unobserved sorting on gains. The estimated MTEs reveal that school choice is not random and that the average student experiences significant improvements in both math and Spanish after just one year of attendance in telesecundarias. We find that the existing policy reduces educational inequality, and our policy-relevant treatment effects show that expanding telesecundarias would yield significant improvements in academic performance.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: program evaluation; marginal treatment effects; distance education; secondary education

JEL Classification:
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I24 Education and Inequality
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: Mexico

Time Period(s): 2007 – 2009

Universe: Secondary (middle) school children in Mexican public schools

Data Type(s): administrative records data; census/enumeration data; geographic information system (GIS) data; survey data

Methodology

Data Source:

Resultados de Aprendizaje (ENLACE): Administrative data for ENLACE 2007-2008

Cuestionarios de Contexto (ENLACE): Secondary School Parent and Principal Survey 2007-2008

Directorio de Instituciones Educativas en México: Data on latitude and longitude for Mexican schools scraped from https://escuelasmex.com/.

Data on population of Mexican municipalities from the Mexican Census

Unit(s) of Observation: individual

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