We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

emerging adults, state policymakers have expanded high school personal finance graduation requirements. Did these added …

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to … general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we … variable. The first-stage estimates suggest that the availability of VHS does not affect the overall high school graduation …

examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the province of … positive effect of obesity on early school leaving; b) there are significant gender differences in the nature of this … type of school attended - are important in determining the effects of obesity on early school leaving. These findings have …

In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on … secondary school at age 21. Our hypothesis is that if a young person sees examples of people who are not able to earn a living …

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …

asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement …

violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects … over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors and forms of violence at school. Our results show that being in a … classroom with peers exposed to domestic violence leads to increased dropout and school mobility rates; increased levels of …