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Sisbén (poverty targeting)

Practices that use it

Ser Pilo PagaNational program of the Ministry of Education (2014-2018) of forgivable loan-scholarships so that low-income high school graduates with high scores on Saber 11 could study at accredited high-quality universities. Four cohorts, ~40,000 beneficiaries. The regression discontinuity evaluation (Londoño-Vélez, Rodríguez and Sánchez, AEJ 2020) found increases of 56.5-86.5% in immediate enrollment and a closing of the socioeconomic gap. It ended in 2018 and was replaced by Generación E.● Discontinued· scale national