This paper analyze the demand for educational services in a context in which households and schools are heterogeneous. Distance from student’s place of residence to schools is a key component of our model. School quality and household characteristics are also important in- gredients. Our...

This paper analyzes the determinants for first-year students’ performance results in four Chilean universities. In addition to the standardized college entrance exams (PSU, for the Spanish acronym) and high school marks aggregation (NEM, for the Spanish acronym), this study includes a...

Recent research suggests that household decision-making may be influenced by the relative power of husbands and wives. But, empirical measurement of relative power has been extremely difficult. Using data that were specially collected to address this issue, the value of resources that husbands...