The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability … that a student drops out early based on a Regression Discontinuity design. It shows that students who barely fail the exam … to a large proportion of the dropout probability of barely-failers, particularly for minority and low-income students …

us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent’s performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly …

analysis, we exploit administrative data on whole populations of UK university students for ten graduate cohorts to investigate …

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal … density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal …

quality. We suggest a method of calculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid low …Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build …. Firstly, the role of students’ personal characteristics, especially gender, ethnicity and past achievement, in explaining the …