Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305654 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17212
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the effects of a higher education reform on the labor market outcomes of college graduates in Peru. The cornerstone of this piece of legislation was a licensing process whereby a newly created higher education superintendency evaluated every existing university on minimum quality criteria to grant or deny their operating license. We find that, conditionally on being employed, the effects of this reform on the college graduates of universities that were granted (denied) the license were two: an effect of around 6.5% (-9%) on monthly wages and a less precisely estimated effect of approximately 4 p.p. (-3.5 p.p.) on the probability of being formally employed. Our work provides evidence of the existence of winners and losers as a consequence of this ambitious higher education reform in Peru.
Subjects: 
SUNEDU
university licensing
higher education reform
signaling effects
JEL: 
I26
I28
J01
L14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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