Steeg, Marc van der; Elk, Roel van; Webbink, Dinand - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of coaching in vocational education on school dropout using data from a randomized experiment. We find that one year of coaching reduces school dropout by more than 40 percent from 17 to 10 percentage points.
The reduction in school dropout results from two...