Utilizing panel data, we measure the responsiveness of student course choice to grades and asses the impact on the distribution of enrollment across departments of differences in grading policies. We show that grades strongly influence course choice; this influence remains powerful after...

In the United Kingdom, the increment to income yielded by an additional year of schooling declines as the occupational status of the worker's father rises. In this note the relationship between family background and the returns to schooling is measured in Kenya and Tanzania. In contrast to the...

A conflict exists between the incentives offered to students and the institutional goal of increased science and math education. Students make their course choices in response to a powerful set of incentives: grades. These incentives have been systematically distorted by the grade inflation of...

In this note, the authors apply to Colombia the method used in a recent paper by J. B. Knight a nd R. Sabot (1983) to measure the influence of educational expansion on the inequality of pay in East Africa. Their analysis was conducted within a framework first suggested by S. Kuznets (1955) and...

Girls lag markedly behind boys in education in many developing countries, which may slow economic growth and increase inequity. This paper uses indicators of the output of the education production process, cognitive skills, to characterize and to investigate the determinants of the large...