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

Youjin Hahn, Liang Choon Wang

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-393
Number of pages25
JournalOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Volume81
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Apr

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

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

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

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