Financial Aid and Higher Education Dropout in Colombia

DOI

10.2991/rais-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

dropout, duration analysis, financial aid, higher education

Abstract

One of the reasons for a government to support an education system is its role in productivity growth of its citizens and nation’s economic development. Although in some less-developed countries, such as Colombia, there is low levels of non-participation in primary and secondary education, there are high levels of dropout in higher education. The Colombian educational loan system experienced some changes to comply the 2010 National Agreement to Reduce Dropout. This paper analyzes the behavior of higher education dropout and its relation with financial aid before and after this Agreement. By means of a discrete-time logit model and a difference-in-differences approach, there is evidence that loans conditions after the National Agreement would not have achieved its goal.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lesly Katheryne Duran Cabieles
AU  - Jaime Andres Sarmiento Espinel
AU  - Adriana Carolina Silva Arias
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Financial Aid and Higher Education Dropout in Colombia
BT  - Proceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (RAIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 28
EP  - 32
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rais-18.2018.5
DO  - 10.2991/rais-18.2018.5
ID  - DuranCabieles2018/08
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