This paper investigates whether the hazard of dropping out for both male and female students changes over the duration of study. Using duration modelling techniques wend a certain degree of non-monotonic duration dependence for both males and females. However this pattern for female students...

Signaling, in regard to its role of information transmission, has been well understood by existing literature, but its e¢´ect on the decision to invest in content has not been thoroughly studied. This paper analyzes a model of pre-investment and subsequent costly signaling to reconsider the...

We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies produce accurate estimates of teacher effects under a variety of scenarios. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment...

Evidence on the effect of extending the school day is decidedly mixed because of the stark differences in how schools use additional time. In this paper, I focus narrowly on the effect of additional time used for individualized tutorials. In 2005, MATCH Charter Public High School integrated two...

Is expanding the scope for parents to choose among competing schools an effective policy lever for improving the quality of education? What lessons can we take from British Columbia’s experience with greater school choice? In 2002, British Columbia implemented a new policy that makes it easier...

Using a unique data set on Chinese visiting students in the US, we investigate some non-traditional determinants, especially social networks/connections, on the number of Chinese students hosted in American universities. Applying truncated, OLS, and GLS estimation, we find that social...

In China, higher education admissions are rigorously based on the total scores of admission tests. Admission subject tests, however, each have different relationships with undergraduate academic performance. Undergraduate academic performance is an important reference variable in applying for...

Estimating the impact of changing school inputs on student performance is often difficult because these inputs are endogenously determined. We investigate a quasi-experiment that altered the number of instructional days prior to a nationwide test in Mexico. Our exogenous source of variation...

We examine the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as short-run and long-run measures of schooling. Using a child-level longitudinal data set from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional...