The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills

This paper studies the formation of math and verbal skills during compulsory education their impact on educational attainment. Using longitudinal data that follow students in England from elementary school to university, we find production functions are inherently different, where cross effects present only skills. Results long-term outcomes indicate play a substantially greater role explaining university enrollment than finding, combined with large female advantage skills, has key implications for gender gaps college enrollment.