TY - BOOK ID - 136676649 TI - High School Track Choice and Financial Constraints : Evidence from Urban Mexico. AU - Avitabile, Ciro AU - Bobba, Matteo AU - Pariguana, Marco PY - 2015 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Academic ability KW - Academic achievement KW - Academic quality KW - Academic year KW - Access to university KW - Achievement KW - Achievement standards KW - Assignment mechanism KW - Average treatment effect KW - Career KW - College KW - College education KW - Curriculum KW - Dropout rate KW - Economic development KW - Economics of education KW - Education KW - Education for all KW - Education institutions KW - Education level KW - Education programs KW - Educational modalities KW - Educational outcomes KW - Effective schools & teachers KW - Elite schools KW - Employment KW - Enrollment KW - Ethnic composition KW - Exam KW - Fees KW - Geographic distribution KW - Grade levels KW - Graduate KW - Graduation rate KW - Grants KW - High school KW - High school level KW - High school students KW - High schools KW - Higher education KW - Human capital KW - Information technology KW - ITS KW - Labor markets KW - Learning KW - LET KW - Literature KW - Low-income students KW - Lower secondary KW - Lower secondary school KW - Middle school KW - Middle schools KW - Ministry of education KW - Mobility KW - Number of students KW - Number of students per teacher KW - Open access KW - Parental education KW - Pedagogical methods KW - Primary education KW - Public education KW - Public school KW - Public schools KW - Returns to education KW - Scholarships KW - School attendance KW - School census KW - School completion KW - School curriculum KW - School days KW - School facilities KW - School infrastructure KW - School level KW - School principals KW - School program KW - School programs KW - School quality KW - School students KW - School supplies KW - School vouchers KW - School year KW - Schooling KW - Secondary education KW - Secondary enrollment KW - Secondary school KW - Secondary schooling KW - Skills KW - Statistics KW - Student ability KW - Students KW - Students per teacher KW - Study KW - Teacher KW - Teachers KW - Technical education KW - Technical schools KW - Technical track KW - Tertiary education KW - Tertiary level KW - Test scores KW - Training KW - Tuition KW - Tuition costs KW - Tuition fees KW - University KW - University degree KW - University programs KW - Upper secondary KW - Upper secondary education KW - Upper secondary level KW - Vocational education KW - Vocational school KW - Vocational schools KW - Vouchers KW - Workshops UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136676649 AB - Parents and students from different socioeconomic backgrounds value differently school characteristics, but the reasons behind this preference heterogeneity are not well understood. In the context of the centralized school assignment system in Mexico City, this study analyzes how a large household income shock affects choices over high school tracks exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of the welfare program Oportunidades. The income shock significantly increases the probability of choosing the vocational track vis-a-vis the other more academic-oriented tracks. The findings suggest that the transfer relaxes the financial constraints that prevent relatively low-ability students from choosing the schooling option with higher labor market returns. ER -