The Cost of Grade Retention

This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students’ subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils with more than three failed subjects, I show that grade failure leads to substantial drop-out and lower educational attainment even four to five years after grade failure first occurred.

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Year of publication:	2010-06
Authors:	Manacorda, Marco
Institutions:	C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Subject:	grade retention \| regression discontinuity \| school drop-out

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CEPR Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 7889
Classification:	I21 - Analysis of Education ; I22 - Educational Finance ; J20 - Time Allocation; Work Behavior; Employment Determination and Creation. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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