Lasting Effects of Retaking College Admission Exams

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dc.contributor.authorFrisancho, Verónica
dc.contributor.authorGallegos, Sebastián
dc.contributor.authorGonzález, Constanza
dc.coverage.spatialChilees_ES
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-12T19:54:57Z
dc.date.available2026-03-12T19:54:57Z
dc.date.issued2026-03-12
dc.description.tableofcontentsDo second chances at a high-stakes admission exam yield long-term gains? Leveraging fifteen years of Chilean administrative data and an RDD, we examine the causal effects of retaking on educational and labor market trajectories. Narrowly missing a preferred program cutoff triggers a 44% increase in retaking, leading to substantial score gains (0.27 SD) and improved placement and enrollment chances. However, these immediate gains do not persist. Retakers graduate at the same rate and from programs with similar earnings and employability profiles as their counterfactual peers. Our results suggest that retaking serves as a reshuffling mechanism yielding null net welfare gains.es_ES
dc.identifier.citationFrisancho, V., Gallegos, S., & González, C. (2026, March 12). Lasting Effects of Retaking College Admission Exams. Retrieved from https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/2607en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/2607
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEstudianteses_ES
dc.subjectSector académico
dc.subjectEvaluación de impacto
dc.subjectEducación
dc.subjectCompetitividad
dc.subjectJóvenes
dc.titleLasting Effects of Retaking College Admission Examses_ES
dc.typeworkingPaperes_ES

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