Essay on the Impact of Full-Time Schooling on Brazilian Educational Performance
full-time education, difference-in-differences, econometrics, educational performance
Full-time schooling has expanded its role in Brazilian education over recent decades, both as an alternative to the traditional single-shift model and as a social policy. Despite ongoing debates about the effectiveness and high implementation costs of this model, few studies have estimated the actual impact of converting a school to full-time operation. This thesis estimates average treatment effects using various types of difference-in-differences models. The results indicate that adopting full-time schooling leads to an average increase of 6 percentage points in high school approval rates among treated schools.