Avaliação do impacto de uma iniciativa de educação financeira utilizando o método de pareamento

Abstract

In recent years, financial education has gained increasing importance in schools, especially after its inclusion in the Brazilian Common National Curriculum Base as a fundamental theme of basic education. In this context, this study seeks to evaluate the social impact of the work of teachers from the first class of the Specialization Course in Financial Education (CEEF) at the Federal University of Paraíba on the performance of students from public schools in Paraíba in the National High School Exam (ENEM), focusing on the areas of Humanities and Writing skills. Therefore, the main objective is to estimate the causal effect of the training of these teachers on student learning. For this purpose, the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method was used, through the MatchIt package in the R language, enabling comparison between groups of students with similar characteristics. The results suggested that students who had classes with teachers participating in the specialization presented statistically significantly higher performance in the ENEM, reinforcing the relevance of this qualification for teachers completing the aforementioned course.