Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290016 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1359
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a four-year professional degree program. Importantly, effects are heterogeneous across economic backgrounds. The impact on college dropouts is primarily present among students that graduated from public high schools, which generally cater to low-income groups. Our findings show that natural resources may affect human capital accumulation differently across income groups in resource-rich economies.
Subjects: 
Extractive Industries
Natural Resources
Resource Curse
ResourceBooms
Human Capital
Education
Latin America
Chile
JEL: 
Q32
Q33
I23
I25
I26
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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