We re-examine the findings in Park, Behrman, and Choi (2012) regarding the causal effects of single-sex schooling on South Korean high school seniors’ performance in the college entrance examination and college attendance. The results with an extra year of data indicate that single-sex schools...

Social interactions have been shown to affect peoples' behavior in many settings. Yet little is known about their role in shaping higher education choices. We exploit discontinuous admission rules generated by Chile's centralized system of admission to postsecondary education to study spillovers...

We study peer effects on the formation of beliefs regarding college participation. We present a structural model of learning in friendship networks. We show that the model is identified and we present a Bayesian estimation procedure. We estimate the model using data on teenagers’ beliefs...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of economic literature regarding theories that analyze the demand for higher education from a microeconomic perspective. Some of the noteworthy fundamental theories included in this review include Becker's (1983) theory of human capital and some...

I develop and estimate a structural equilibrium model of the college market. Students, having heterogeneous abilities and preferences, make college application decisions, subject to uncertainty and application costs. Colleges, observing only noisy measures of student ability, choose tuition and...

Socio-economic changes have led to a transformation of values among young people: the attitude toward higher education, which gave social status and, consequently, employment privileges, has become a thing of the past. At the same time, the changes to the system of professional education that...

This study investigates the impact of a low-cost, color-coded scale intervention designed to inform university students about the expected workload for a course, with the aim of improving students’ academic performance and learning behaviors. An initial intervention took place at the beginning...

We examine how selected high school characteristics - including type of diploma - contribute to students' academic success in an American-type university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We find no robust evidence that US, UK, and UAE systems of high school diploma produce different outcomes,...

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at elite schools is particularly puzzling because college...

This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...