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Title: Essays on Higher Education and Human Capital Investments
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1. Kang, Kyungmin
Essays on Higher Education and Human Capital Investments
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 2019
Cohort(s): NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University
Keyword(s): College Characteristics

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In the third chapter, `"Why Not Choose the Best School? The Determinants of College Choices", I study the determinants of college choices among the schools offering admission. There is extensive research literature on the determinants of mismatch between student ability and college quality that focuses mostly on how students make application decisions. However, the college decision process consists of several stages and includes students' decision-making processes when deciding on which school's admissions offer to accept. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults data to examine how students choose colleges among the schools offering admission. The analysis shows that while most students choose schools with the highest quality among the available offers, about 40% of students do not. Students' demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds do not explain such enrollment pattern well. College characteristics in relation to students' characteristics--the degree of overmatch (low ability students at high quality colleges) and the distance to college--affect college choice.
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Kang, Kyungmin. Essays on Higher Education and Human Capital Investments. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 2019.