Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia

This paper estimates the labor market effects of enrolling in a short-cycle program in Colombia. Following evidence for the U.S., increasing access to short-cycle degrees might attract some students who would not have enrolled in higher education o...

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Main Authors:	Ferreyra, Maria Marta, Galindo, Camila, Urzúa, Sergio
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	TERTIARY EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION LABOR SKILLS LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/117311624887135159/Labor-Market-Effects-of-Short-Cycle-Higher-Education-Programs-Challenges-and-Evidence-from-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35889

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spelling	okr-10986-358892021-07-02T05:11:02Z Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia Ferreyra, Maria Marta Galindo, Camila Urzúa, Sergio TERTIARY EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION LABOR SKILLS LABOR MARKET This paper estimates the labor market effects of enrolling in a short-cycle program in Colombia. Following evidence for the U.S., increasing access to short-cycle degrees might attract some students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise (i.e., the expansion or democratization margin), while also inducing other students to divert from bachelor's- and into short-cycle- degrees (i.e., the diversion margin). To identify responses along these margins, this paper uses an Instrumental Variables strategy and exploits local variation in the supply of short-cycle programs for the universe of high school graduates in 2005. Having at least one higher education institution specialized in short-cycle degrees within a 10 km radius of the student’s high school municipality increases enrollment in short-cycle programs by 3 percentage points, or 30 percent of the sample average. Results indicate that this enrollment increase is largely driven by students who would divert from bachelor's to short-cycle degrees due to changes in the local supply of short-cycle program. For these students, SCPs improve participation in the formal labor market among females, although they lead to lower monthly wages among males. 2021-07-01T14:40:20Z 2021-07-01T14:40:20Z 2021-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/117311624887135159/Labor-Market-Effects-of-Short-Cycle-Higher-Education-Programs-Challenges-and-Evidence-from-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35889 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9717 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Colombia
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description	This paper estimates the labor market effects of enrolling in a short-cycle program in Colombia. Following evidence for the U.S., increasing access to short-cycle degrees might attract some students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise (i.e., the expansion or democratization margin), while also inducing other students to divert from bachelor's- and into short-cycle- degrees (i.e., the diversion margin). To identify responses along these margins, this paper uses an Instrumental Variables strategy and exploits local variation in the supply of short-cycle programs for the universe of high school graduates in 2005. Having at least one higher education institution specialized in short-cycle degrees within a 10 km radius of the student’s high school municipality increases enrollment in short-cycle programs by 3 percentage points, or 30 percent of the sample average. Results indicate that this enrollment increase is largely driven by students who would divert from bachelor's to short-cycle degrees due to changes in the local supply of short-cycle program. For these students, SCPs improve participation in the formal labor market among females, although they lead to lower monthly wages among males.
format	Working Paper
author	Ferreyra, Maria Marta Galindo, Camila Urzúa, Sergio
author_facet	Ferreyra, Maria Marta Galindo, Camila Urzúa, Sergio
author_sort	Ferreyra, Maria Marta
title	Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia
title_short	Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia
title_full	Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia
title_fullStr	Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia
title_full_unstemmed	Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia
title_sort	labor market effects of short-cycle higher education programs : challenges and evidence from colombia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/117311624887135159/Labor-Market-Effects-of-Short-Cycle-Higher-Education-Programs-Challenges-and-Evidence-from-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35889
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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia

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