matched employer-employee data set. The model is estimated with a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation method …

This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker …

There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … scores are associated with individual early school dropouts. It distinguishes between student and school factors and … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good …

raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a …

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and … public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the causal effect of high-school athletic participation on absenteeism …

Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration … of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect …

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school … differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who feel "pulled" out of school (i.e, they say they dropped out of … school to work or take care of family) do similarly with respect to labor market and criminal outcomes in their early …