Data and Code for: The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile

We estimate the transmission of higher education across generationsusing the arrival of the Pinochet dictatorship to Chile in 1973 as a natural experiment.Pinochet promoted a large contraction in the number of seats available for newstudents across all universities. Using census data, we find that parents who reachedcollege age shortly after 1973 experienced a sharp decline in college enrollment.Decades after democratization, we observe that their children are also less likelyto enroll in higher education. The results imply large and persistent downstreameffects of educational policies over more than half a century.