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 …

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …