Resource constraints and educational attainment in developing countries: Colombia 1945–2005

Publication year: 2011 Source: Journal of Development Economics, Available online 24 September 2011 Juan Esteban Saavedra In this paper, I investigate the extent to which secondary and higher education supply constraints affected aggregate educational attainment in Colombia for cohorts born between 1945 and 1981. As was the case in many other countries after World War II, in Colombia, industrialization, urbanization and rapid population growth increased the demand for education and the return to schooling.

Publication year: 2011 Source: Journal of Development Economics, Available online 24 September 2011 Juan Esteban Saavedra In this paper, I investigate the extent to which secondary and higher education supply constraints affected aggregate educational attainment in Colombia for cohorts born between 1945 and 1981. As was the case in many other countries after World War II, in Colombia, industrialization, urbanization and rapid population growth increased the demand for education and the return to schooling.

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Resource constraints and educational attainment in developing countries: Colombia 1945–2005

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