High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …

-year colleges (i.e., community colleges). White, Asian, and higher-income students who live in a community college desert (i.e., at … likely to complete bachelor's degrees. Meanwhile, Black, Hispanic, and lower-income students respond to living in a community …-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges …

this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour …

efforts to increase college enrollment, especially among underrepresented minorities and low-income students, we find that …We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment … in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many fewer nearby …