This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school … differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who feel "pulled" out of school (i.e, they say they dropped out of … school to work or take care of family) do similarly with respect to labor market and criminal outcomes in their early …

developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical programs ranges from 10 to 50 percent of all … participants. From a policy perspective, it is of interest to know if dropouts benefit from the time they spend in training since … different lengths of exposure to a program by dropouts in a Korean job training program. To do this, we employ parametric and …

Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth …

We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a … 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education … differences, and allows for a discussion of the policy challenges inherent in improving the postsecondary outcomes of dropouts. …

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost 500,000 dropouts passed the test, amounting to 12% of all high … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of …

the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …

teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … income shocks, and measurement error in income. Our baseline estimates imply that a $1,000 increase in income raises combined …