immigrant high school dropouts. One data source -- the CPS -- is plagued by non-response and allocation bias from the hot …

. We study how the significant expansion of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in the United States since the early 1990's … has affected teen fertility and high school dropout rates. Our results indicate that school-based health centers have a … services do not reduce high school dropout rates by very much despite the sizable reductions in teen birth rates …

%. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in … can be proximately explained by changes in school entry laws; the rest reflects "academic redshirting," the practice of …-year-olds reverberates well beyond the kindergarten classroom. Recent stagnation in the high school and college completion rates of young …

The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school … students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on high school graduation rates. A six … high school dropout rates. The introduction of a GED certification program in high schools in Oregon produced a four …

8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

, duration, and cause of absences among teachers to address many of the potential biases from the endogeneity of worker absence …

relative weight that school administrators place on a variety of teacher characteristics. I find evidence that principals do …

The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in … productivity of instructional time is higher in countries which implemented school accountability measures or that gave schools …

This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …

The General Educational Development (GED) credential has become the primary 'second chance' route to high school … certification for school dropouts in the United States. Despite the widespread use of the GED, however, bias due to self …