Avaliação de impacto social de uma iniciativa de educação financeira da Universidade Federal da Paraíba sobre os alunos da rede estadual

Abstract

This research carries out a Social Impact Assessment of the multiplier effect of teachers qualified by UFPB’s Financial Specialization Course on the performance of students from public schools in Paraíba who took part in ENEM in 2018. The students’ performance refers to the following ENEM knowledge areas: Languages, Codes and their Technologies, Natural Sciences and their Technologies and Mathematics and its Technologies. This study reviews the literature on the subject of financial education, describing it as a policy in teacher training with the aim of bringing it to schools and the school community. The main objective of this research is to estimate the causal effect, i.e. the performance of students on the ENEM in public schools in Paraíba, after they have been students of teachers qualified by the Specialization Course in Financial Education at UFPB. To achieve this goal, the econometric method Propensity Score Matching (PSM) was used, combined with matching techniques and control groups. The results were a significant improvement in the grades of public school students, generated by the lessons given by the course teachers. This contributed to disseminating knowledge about financial education to the school community