entire higher education system, which in turn affected enrollment and graduation rates. Colombia faced this challenge with …Abstract The new millennium brought with it a new challenge. Students reaching higher education were not only greater … severely scarce economic resources, but the Ministry of Education designed a plan to keep students in higher education and …

This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs … (students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise) and the diversion margin (students who would have enrolled … higher education institutions (HEIs) facing Colombian high school graduates in an empirical multinomial choice model with …

Colombia's staggered rollout of a new signal of skill — a college exit exam — reduced the earnings return to reputation and …

The paper studies the impact of financial aid on long-term educational attainment and labor market outcomes in Colombia … scores, graduation rates, and per-student spending. Notably, completing a bachelor's degree converted the loan into a grant … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college …

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education …. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control … for about 60-70 percent of the variation in student-level graduation and labor market outcomes. Our estimates show that …

A rapid expansion in the demand for post-secondary education triggered an unprecedented boom of higher education … programs in Colombia, possibly deteriorating quality. This paper uses rich administrative data matching school admission … information, socio-economic characteristics of the young graduates, standardized test scores pre- and post-tertiary education and …

This study evaluates the impact of a national level subsidized loan program, ACCES, on a number of higher education …-income students in Colombia. We use national level data along with a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the …

This paper studies the factors that determine the decision of the individuals to enroll in higher education in Colombia …. A panel data is estimated at the level of each Higher Education Institution using data from the Ministry of Education … suggest that the educational supply has great influence over the enrollment rates of Higher Education Institutions …

a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students …

Using longitudinal data of college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and …