Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
return to graduating high school has risen, the high school dropout rate
in America is increasing. This trend is rarely noted … evidence in Heckman and LaFontaine (2008a) challenges these claims and establishes
that the high school dropout rate has … primary source of the slowdown is the growth in the high school
dropout rate (see the curve with the light rectangles). This …