Catholic secondary schooling on high-school graduation rates and also examines Catholic schooling's effect on college … States. These measures of access provide potential instruments for Catholic school attendance. The results indicate that …

-in-differences models that leverage within-individual and across-cohort variation in shooting exposure within matched school groups to … grade in the two years following the event. We also find adverse long-term impacts on the likelihood of high school … student and school characteristics indicate that the detrimental impacts of shootings are universal, with most sub …

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 …

Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results … within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap. Unequal … between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …

The role of schooling and school quality in the economy has become very confused, in part because of attempts to argue … different positions on educational policy. Research demonstrates that school quality has a strong impact on individual earnings …, on the distribution of income, and on overall economic growth. In contrast to these long run factors, today's school …

today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve … of positive classroom spillovers. Leveraging existing school inputs to implement a light-touch, cost …

I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results … school and the increasing availability of the GED credential help to explain stagnation in the face of substantial gaps … between the wages of high school graduates and school dropouts. I point out that there are several hypotheses, but to date …

school enrollment figures in a perpetual-inventory framework to fill the remainder. The data refer to male and female …

. Eliminating in-person schooling reduces the amount of labour time parents of school-aged children have available to work, and …