Efeito da Olimpíada de Matemática das Escolas Públicas (OBMEP) e das redes de amizade em atividades acadêmicas nas escolas públicas do Recife

Abstract

The Brazilian Public School Math Olympics (Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática das Escolas Públicas, or OBMEP) is a competition that has held yearly since 2005, with the goal of identifying talented students and to improve basic education. In this paper we use longitudinal data to evaluate the OBMEP’S impact on the amount of hours that students report to have dedicated to studying, how often they have been absent from class, and how often they answer their mathematics homework.We use a difference in differences approach combined with propensity score analysis, the results shows that proximity to a participant in OBMEP’s later phase causes a statistically significant increase on the amount of hours students dedicate to study and on how often they answer their homeworks, it also shows a decrease in how often students are absent from class.