Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000–04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …