The Expansion of Higher Education in Colombia: Bad Students or Bad Programs?
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Returns to Tertiary Education; Heterogeneity; Value Added of Higher Education; Colombia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
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