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dc.titleDigging Deep: Resource Exploitation and Higher Education
dc.contributor.authorBalza, Lenin
dc.contributor.authorDe Los Rios, Camilo
dc.contributor.authorRivera, Nathaly M.
dc.contributor.orgunitInfrastructure and Energy Sector
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2022-10-03T16:10:30
dc.date.issue2022-10-03T00:10:00
dc.description.abstractDo 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 four-year professional degree program. Importantly, effects are heterogeneous across economic backgrounds. The impact on college dropouts is primarily present among students that graduated from public high schools, which generally cater to low-income groups. Our findings show that natural resources may affect human capital accumulation differently across income groups in resource-rich economies.
dc.format.extent72
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004495
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Digging-Deep-Resource-Exploitation-and-Higher-Education.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectNatural Resource
dc.subjectHigh School
dc.subjectHuman Capital
dc.subjectHigher Education
dc.subjectExtractive Industry
dc.subjectLeasing
dc.subjectEducational Institution
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectLabor Market
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subjectRating
dc.subject.jelcodeQ32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeQ33 - Resource Booms
dc.subject.jelcodeI23 - Higher Education • Research Institutions
dc.subject.jelcodeI25 - Education and Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeI26 - Returns to Education
dc.subject.keywordsResource Curse;ResourceBooms;Education;Latin America;Chile
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01359
idb.operationRG-E1655
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