Between 2000 and 2013, higher education (HE) in Colombia expanded substantially in response to greater demand, greater supply of capacity and programs on the part of HE institutions, and policies enhancing HE access and attractiveness. We use rich student- and program-level data to decompose the observed enrollment expansion, and we show that changes in HE supply, policy, and returns account for most of the expansion and have been critical to the inflow of low-ability students. We investigate the supply expansion and the opening of new programs and find that these were driven by the economic incentives facing the institutions.

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高等教育机会的增加：哥伦比亚的供应，分类和成果

在2000年至2013年期间，哥伦比亚的高等教育（HE）大幅增长，原因是高等教育机构的需求增加，能力和计划的供应增加，以及提高高等教育机会和吸引力的政策。我们使用丰富的学生和计划级别的数据来分解观察到的入学人数的增长，并且我们表明，高等教育供应，政策和回报的变化占了大部分的增长，并且对低能力学生的流入至关重要。我们调查了供应的增加和新计划的开放，发现这些是由机构所面临的经济激励所驱动的。