%0 Report
        %A Boccanfuso, Dorothée
%A Larouche, Alexandre
%A Trandafir, Mircea
        %T Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9099
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9099
        %X While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how quality improvements at the university level affect employment. Our difference-in-difference estimates suggest that young high-skilled workers experienced a nine percentage-point employment gain relative to older workers. They are also more likely to have "better" jobs (in the service industry or government), suggesting a reduction in the mismatch between the quality of high-skill labor demanded and supplied.
        %K higher education
%K employment
%K impact analysis
%K quality mismatch