-grade cohort in the American Community Survey. Cohorts with more exposure are more likely to graduate from high school and earn …

student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a …

Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … probability that he drops out of high school, particularly among the most economically disadvantaged black males. Exposure to at … identification strategies, including an instrumental variables strategy that exploits within-school, intertemporal variation in the …

matched student-school panel data covering the population of secondary school national exams over seven years. We then conduct …. -- Performance-related pay ; public sector ; matched school-student data …

on the role that high school scores and admission exams should have for access and performance in higher education. …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true … high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the official rate issued by the National Center for Educational … and have not converged over the past 35 years; (d) the decline in high school graduation rates occurs among native …

The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …