test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of …. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority …

disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …

start of the academic year. Previous research has shown that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils' school lives … into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK. We also examine whether … significant differences in terms of occupation, earnings and self-perceived health and mental health. It is not clear why this …

, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which …I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability … fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find the longer school year decreases the probability of grade repetition …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …