Plausibly Exogenous [1326] - Higher Ed (09/18/2023)
LHS Variable
Mortality
RHS Variable
Higher education
Source of Exogenous Variation
Reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching college age in the following years
- Gonzalez, Martinez, Munoz, and Prem (2023), “Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction”