-year graduation. Importantly, we take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for …

which affected GED test takers in Texas. We utilize unique data from the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP) which contain … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment … Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the …

from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences in the probability of applying to college, controlling for a student …

Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning …

from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority …" hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …

Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …

Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP …

uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the … but becomes especially large in Texas after incorporating noise from imputing its considerable missing data. …