Data and Code for: The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Maria Angelica Bautista, University of Chicago. Harris School of Public Policy; Felipe Gonzalez, Queen Mary University of London; Luis Martinez, University of Chicago. Harris School of Public Policy; Pablo Munoz, Universidad de Chile; Mounu Prem , Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

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Bautista, Maria Angelica, Gonzalez, Felipe, Martinez, Luis, Munoz, Pablo, and Prem , Mounu . Data and Code for: The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-06-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192384V1

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We estimate the transmission of higher education across generations
using the arrival of the Pinochet dictatorship to Chile in 1973 as a natural experiment.
Pinochet promoted a large contraction in the number of seats available for new
students across all universities. Using census data, we find that parents who reached
college age shortly after 1973 experienced a sharp decline in college enrollment.
Decades after democratization, we observe that their children are also less likely
to enroll in higher education. The results imply large and persistent downstream
effects of educational policies over more than half a century.



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