We estimate a variety of models to evaluate costs in US higher education institutions. A novel feature of our approach involves the estimation of latent class and random parameter stochastic frontier models of the multiproduct cost function. This allows us fully to accommodate both the...

An empirical model is estimated which evaluates the determinants of labour market participation and occupational choice. The response of the latter to changes in expected earnings is somewhat weaker amongst women, especially married women, than amongst men. One interpretation of this finding is...