The timing of signaling: To study in high school or in college?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lee, Sanghoon
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2007.00445.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 785-807
• 关键词: culture

摘要

American students study harder in college than in high school, whereas East Asian students study harder in high school than in college. This article proposes a signaling explanation. Signaling may occur over time both in high school and in college, and societies may differ in the timing of signaling. Students work harder in the signaling stage determined by the society as a whole. A testable implication is that high ability workers in East Asia are more concentrated among a few colleges than their U.S. counterparts. Ibis implication is confirmed by top CEO education profile data in the United States and Korea.