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

school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower than widely used …) growing high school graduation differentials by gender help explain increasing male-female college attendance gaps. -- high … school dropout rate ; high school graduation rates ; educational attainment …

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 …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting received. A …

before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly … children enter school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting …