Higher education in Latin America: trends and explanations
This paper documents the recent trends in access and completion of higher education (HE) in 18 Latin American countries, and explores the relation with a series of context variables in order to verify different hypothesis about the changes observed. We find that access to HE among individuals in the working age population has risen in the region, while completion rates have fallen. Our cohort-level analysis shows that the recent expansion in HE enrollment has been mostly associated with the increase in Upper Secondary [USE] completion rates as opposed to an increase in the fraction of USE grad ... Show more
Authors: Szekely, Miguel
Published: Las Vegas, Nevada, Macrothink Institute, 2017
Resource type: Article
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https://doi.org/10.5296/jse.v7i3.11361
