Determinants of success of Nova SBE’s undergraduate students

Applied Policy Analysis major

This Work Project analyses the determinants of academic success of undergraduate students enrolled in 2009/10 at Nova School of Business and Economic, using information about students’ characteristics and skills to predict their future educational success, measured by four different outcomes. The main finding is that internal high school grade is a better predictor of achievement than the score of mathematics national exam. Additionally, gender, age, economic background and distance between home and Nova SBE seem to be correlated with performance. On the other hand, the estimates suggest that attending a private high school or following the economics track at high school are irrelevant for predicting educational outcomes, after controlling for the internal high school grade and the mathematics national exam score.

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