Fig. 8
Probability of studying in a private school. This figure shows the relationships between birthday and studying in a private institution in primary and middle school (top left), between birthday and graduating from a private high school (top right), between birthday and having always studied in private institutions (bottom right), and between birthday and moving from a public middle school to a private high school (bottom left). The center of the graphs is zero, which represents January 1. Data come from applications for undergraduate programs at UFPE from 2002 to 2005. The sample is restricted to those who graduated from high school in the same year and were under 18.5 years old. Functions are estimated using a triangular kernel with the bandwidth selection procedure proposed by Calonico et al. (2014). Ï„ is the RD estimate, with robust standard errors in parentheses. ***, **, * represent statistical significance at the 1, 5, and 10 % levels, respectively