Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools
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Causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exams and college attendance: random assignment in Seoul high schools.
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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0157-1