The Effectiveness of Single-Sex Schools through Out-of-School Activities: Evidence from South Korea

Youjin Hahn; Liang Choon Wang

doi:10.1111/obes.12266

The Effectiveness of Single-Sex Schools through Out-of-School Activities: Evidence from South Korea

Youjin Hahn, Liang Choon Wang

Department of Economics

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Abstract

Students’ out-of-school activities and time use can play a crucial role in facilitating the effect of schools on students’ achievement. Using data from Seoul, South Korea, where students are randomly assigned into schools, we show that when single-sex schools improve students’ test performance, their effect is positive on students’ time spent on study-related out-of-school activities. Our results indicate that out-of-school activities explain roughly 21%–30% of the effect of single-sex schooling on test performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	369-393
Number of pages	25
Journal	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Volume	81
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12266
Publication status	Published - 2019 Apr

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© 2018 The Department of Economics, University of Oxford and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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Statistics and Probability
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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