TY  - GEN
AU  - Camacho, Adriana
AU  - Messina, Julián
AU  - Uribe, Juan Pablo
TI  - The Expansion of Higher Education in Colombia: Bad Students or Bad Programs?
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/05/04
DO  - 10.18235/0007010
AB  - 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, wages and detailed socio-economic characteristics of the young graduates, and standardized test scores pre- and post-tertiary education, to assess the heterogeneity in the value added generated by higher education programs.  Our findings show that once we account for self-selection, the penalty of attending a recently created program that initially appeared to be large becomes much smaller, and close to zero.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0007010
ER  -