Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …

the consequences of a resource boom on private demand for education. To do this we use the Household Budget Survey of … the formal sector for the educated labour force and the likelihood that households pay tuition fees for tertiary education …