Does Quality Make a Difference for Higher Education Graduates in Colombia? Measuring Differences in Accredited and Non-accredited Institutions With Similar Financial Characteristics
| Autor: | Julio Sarmiento, Edgardo Cayon, Juan Santiago Correa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences 050301 education Accounting 0506 political science health services administration 050602 political science & public administration Quality (business) Business and International Management business Psychology 0503 education geographic locations health care economics and organizations Finance media_common Accreditation |
| Zdroj: | WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS. 17:859-868 |
| ISSN: | 1109-9526 |
| DOI: | 10.37394/23207.2020.17.84 |
| Popis: | In this paper we explore the difference of quality in higher education between accredited and non-accredited higher education institutions (HEIs) in Colombia. For that purpose we test if the difference of the National Exam of Student Performance (Saber Pro), which is our proxy for quality between institutional accredited and non-accredited institutions is statistically significant. The hypothesis is that indeed those HEIs that have been granted the institutional quality accreditation by the Colombian ministry of education should have better results in the national exam than those that not. We argue that for robustness of the results, it is necessary to control for confounding effects among comparable HEIs. For this purpose, we employ a propensity matching score approach based on common financial characteristics in order to avoid issues of selection bias. Our results find that the difference in performance between accredited and non-accredited institutions is positive and statistically significant. This difference between performances can be attributable to the substantial differences in the pattern of expenditures and asset investment of non-accredited HEIs. |
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