Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia

This study analyzes the economic returns to schooling decisions made by high school graduates in Colombia. We wanted to verify if the economic returns (wages) obtained by new postsecondary education graduates compensate for the economic and psychological investment they made to get that academic deg...

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Autores:
Ospina-Londoño,Monica
Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola
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2014
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Universidad EAFIT
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Repositorio EAFIT
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eng
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oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/7521
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http://hdl.handle.net/10784/7521
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postsecondary education
labor market outcomes
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dc.title.eng.fl_str_mv Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
title Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
spellingShingle Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
postsecondary education
labor market outcomes
title_short Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
title_full Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
title_fullStr Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
title_sort Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Ospina-Londoño,Monica
Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola
dc.contributor.department.spa.fl_str_mv Escuela de Economía y Finanzas
Economía
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Ospina-Londoño,Monica
Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola
dc.contributor.affiliation.spa.fl_str_mv Universidad Eafit,Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Universidad Eafit,Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
dc.contributor.program.spa.fl_str_mv Estudios en Economía y Empresa
dc.subject.keyword.eng.fl_str_mv postsecondary education
labor market outcomes
topic postsecondary education
labor market outcomes
description This study analyzes the economic returns to schooling decisions made by high school graduates in Colombia. We wanted to verify if the economic returns (wages) obtained by new postsecondary education graduates compensate for the economic and psychological investment they made to get that academic degree. To answer that question, we estimated these economic returns for each type of postsecondary degree available in Colombia (technical education, technological education, undergraduate studies, graduate studies) by origin of the institution (public or private). Our methodological strategy includes the generation of a micro-database that contains agents’ socio-economic backgrounds and also their individual labor market outcomes. Because agents with very similar characteristics and the same schooling decisions might obtain different economic returnsfrom education, we considered as part of our empirical strategy the inclusion of an approximation of agents’ cognitive abilities.
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