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Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Park, Hyunjoon Behrman, Jere R. Choi, Jaesung |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Despite the voluminous literature on the potentials of single-sex schools, there is no consensus on the effects of single-sex schools because of student selection of school types. We exploit a unique feature of schooling in Seoul—the random assignment of students into single-sex versus coeducational high schools—to assess causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exam scores and college attendance. Our validation of the random assignment shows comparable socioeconomic backgrounds and prior academic achievement of students attending single-sex schools and coeducational schools, which increases the credibility of our causal estimates of single-sex school effects. The three-level hierarchical model shows that attending all-boys schools or all-girls schools, rather than coeducational schools, is significantly associated with higher average scores on Korean and English test scores. Applying the school district fixed-effects models, we find that single-sex schools produce a higher percentage of graduates who attended four-year colleges and a lower percentage of graduates who attended two-year junior colleges than do coeducational schools. The positive effects of single-sex schools remain substantial, even after we take into account various school-level variables, such as teacher quality, the student-teacher ratio, the proportion of students receiving lunch support, and whether the schools are public or private. |
| Starting Page | 447 |
| Ending Page | 469 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-012-0157-1 |
| PubMed reference number | 23073751 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 50 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://colegioreferencia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2012-Causal-Effects-of-Single-Sex-Schools-on-College-Entrance-Exams-and-College-Attendance-Random-Assignment-in-Seoul-High-Schools.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=psc_working_papers |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=psc_working_papers&httpsredir=1&referer= |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ncgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Causal-Effects-of-Single-Sex-Schools-on-College-Entrance-Exams-and-College-Attendance-Random-Assignment-in-Seoul-High-Schools.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.unav.edu/matrimonioyfamilia/observatorio/uploads/30982_Park_Causal-single-sex-2012.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0157-1 |
| Journal | Demography |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
