El objetivo de este capítulo es dar cuenta del desarrollo de la educación superior o terciaria
chilena durante los últimos 50 años: entre 1964, al comenzar el gobierno del presidente …

This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged
groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and …

This article examines the labor market payoffs to different types of postsecondary education,
including field and institution of study. Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of the payoff to …

I analyze how two reforms, introduced to expand college access in Brazil, impacted
enrollments of low-SES students. The first policy centralized applications in a nationwide …

In the last decades, Brazil experienced a historical decline in its wage inequality level,
particularly in the first decade of the 21st century. This paper reviews the literature that …

We use a large-scale survey and field experiment to evaluate a policy that provided
information about college-and major-specific earnings and cost outcomes to college …

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

We explore how college reputation affects the “big sort,” the process by which students
choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple definition of college …

High inequality is a characteristic feature of Latin America. After rising in the 1990s,
however, income inequality in the region has declined while it has increased in other parts …

Una visión completa de la economía chilena del destacado Premio Nacional de
Humanidades y de Ciencias Sociales Una lectura crítica de la economía chilena con sus …