Chile’s Missing Students: Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility
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Bautista, María Angélica
González, Felipe
Martínez, Luis R.
Muñoz, Pablo
Prem, Mounu
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2020-05-15
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eng
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Hostile policies towards higher education are a prominent feature of authoritarian regimes. We study the capture of higher education by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile following the 1973 coup. We find three main results: (i) cohorts that reached college age shortly after the coup experienced a large drop in college enrollment as a result of the systematic reduction in the number of openings for incoming students decreed by the regime; (ii) these cohorts had worse economic outcomes throughout the life cycle and struggled to climb up the socioeconomic ladder, especially women; (iii) children with parents in the affected cohorts also have a substantially lower probability of college enrollment. These results demonstrate that the political capture of higher education in non-democracies hinders social mobility and leads to a persistent reduction in human capital accumulation, even after democratization.
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I23 - Higher Education; Research Institutions, I24 - Education and Inequality, I25 - Education and Economic Development, P51 - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
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Dictatorship, Higher education, Social mobility, Intergenerational transmission
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