A recent major reform of higher education has changed a year-based system into a credit accumulation one. We use this exogenous shock to compare the two systems. Using a longitudinal dataset of undergraduate students from one of the largest French-speaking universities, a competing risks survival analysis is performed to study the probabilities…

The paper studies a unique education reform that decreased the length of secondary-level vocational education from 4 to 3 years, reducing the time spent on general subjects while keeping the time spent on vocational training. We use a difference-in-difference strategy by comparing reformed schools with early adopters before and after the reform.…

This paper examines the role of sociodemographic characteristics on non-traditional mature freshmen higher education dropout rates. One of Chile's largest higher education institutions, which has an important number of mature students from more deprived social sectors, was used as a case study. A quantitative methodology was applied, based on the…