@article{THESIS,
      recid = {12390},
      author = {Sah, Sidharth},
      title = {Essays in the Economics of Higher Education},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2024-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      pages = {115},
      abstract = {This dissertation is comprised of two chapters regarding  the economics of post-secondary education. The first  concerns effects of peer gender: Large gender differences  exist in the take-up and completion of college majors  across academic fields. The degree of gender concentration  within fields tends to increase over time spent in college.  In this chapter, I investigate how the gender composition  of peers in first-semester classes impacts women’s and  men’s academic outcomes and major choices. I find that a  larger proportion of male peers hurts female academic  achievement and decreases female persistence in majors,  relative to men in the same classes.The second chapter  regards collusion in the determination of financial aid:  Collusion is an important economic phenomenon that may play  a role in many industries. This paper focuses on a case of  alleged collusion in the determination of financial aid  offers among a set of elite US universities known as the  “Overlap Group." A Justice Department suit alleged that  collusion led to an increase in the average effective price  of attendance for students at these universities. A simple  model of price competition between schools suggests that  this would be the case. Applying conventional  difference-in-difference and synthetic controls methods to  the case of the Overlap Group suggests that the cessation  of collusion did lead to a reallocation of university  budgets towards financial aid.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12390},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12390},
}