. We study how the significant expansion of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in the United States since the early 1990's … has affected teen fertility and high school dropout rates. Our results indicate that school-based health centers have a … services do not reduce high school dropout rates by very much despite the sizable reductions in teen birth rates …

coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school … national exams and are four percentage points more likely to complete secondary school. There are also important non …

This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until … a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school … start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school …

school-based arrests, and increase high-school completion, college-going, and college persistence. Schools that improve … social well-being have larger effects on attendance and behavioral infractions in high school, while those that promote hard … work have larger effects on GPA. Importantly, school SED value-added is more predictive of school impacts on longer …

We leverage the 1916 polio pandemic in the United States as a natural experiment to test whether short-term school … implemented quarantines and closed schools. Since the pandemic occurred during the start of the 1916 school year, children of … working age may have elected not to return to school. Using state-level polio morbidity as a proxy for schooling disruptions …

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 …

School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives … on educational policy in developing countries. Unique panel data on primary school age children in Egypt permit … estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students perceive differences in school quality, measured as expected …

likely to drop out of school if they live in a place with a greater gap between the bottom and middle of the income …

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 …

State requirements that high school graduates pass exit exams were the leading edge of the movement towards standards … completing high school, particularly for black students. Similarly, our analysis of grade-level dropout data from the CCD … indicates that Minnesota's recent exit exam increased the dropout rate in urban and high-poverty school districts as well as in …