Spanish Abstract: El presente artículo ofrece un resumen del Informe final del Proyecto “Apoyo técnico y conceptual al programa Jóvenes Investigadores e Innovadores”, un trabajo realizado durante un mes por el Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo – CID de la Universidad Nacional...

Obtaining a post-secondary education is associated with better labor market outcomes and is a key determinant of worker productivity, economic growth, and overall well-being. However, the cost of attendance, time to completion, and levels of borrowing are all reaching unparalleled highs. As...

Average wages of higher-education teaching personnel (HETP) in 2015 must account for 130% of the average wages in a given region. The Russian average HETP wages in January-September 2015 accounted for 140.2% of the average wages in economy, showing high differentiation by constituent territory...

This paper examines the impact of racial and low-income quotas on academic performance considering all public and private universities in Brazil. Using data from the National Examination of Student Performance (ENADE) conducted in 2012, the results indicate that there is no statistically...

The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has demonstrated commitment to expand higher education science and technology (S and T) programs to spur and support its growth and transformation agenda. Ethiopia has made a tremendous advance in access to higher education over the past decade. This rapid...

This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts differentially exposed to the policy, as well as geographic variation in access to public...

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...

This paper describes changes that occurred in the Brazilian tertiary education system considering information from household surveys and from administrative data collected by the Ministry of Education. A movement toward democratizing access occurred especially in public universities and in the...

In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly announcing it beforehand. The current paper utilizes this natural experiment to identify the causal impact of participation in single-sex versus mixed classrooms on students’...