Chile’s Missing Students: Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility

dc.contributorGrupo de Investigaciones. Facultad de Economía. Universidad del Rosario
dc.creatorBautista, María Angélica
dc.creatorGonzález, Felipe
dc.creatorMartínez, Luis R.
dc.creatorMuñoz, Pablo
dc.creatorPrem, Mounu
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-13T19:03:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-22T15:14:01Z
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dc.identifierBautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, Mounu (2020) Chile’s Missing Students: Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility. Universidad del Rosario, Department of Economics, Documentos de trabajo economía. 90 pp.
dc.identifierhttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22008
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.48713/10336_22008
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3446098
dc.description.abstractHostile policies towards higher education are a prominent feature of authoritarian regimes. We study the capture of higher education by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile following the 1973 coup. We find three main results: (i) cohorts that reached college age shortly after the coup experienced a large drop in college enrollment as a result of the systematic reduction in the number of openings for incoming students decreed by the regime; (ii) these cohorts had worse economic outcomes throughout the life cycle and struggled to climb up the socioeconomic ladder, especially women; (iii) children with parents in the affected cohorts also have a substantially lower probability of college enrollment. These results demonstrate that the political capture of higher education in non-democracies hinders social mobility and leads to a persistent reduction in human capital accumulation, even after democratization.
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dc.sourceinstname:Universidad del Rosario
dc.sourcereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
dc.subjectDictadura
dc.subjectEducación superior
dc.subjectMobilidad social
dc.subjectTransmisión intergeneracional
dc.titleChile’s Missing Students: Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility
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