performance-based promotions could be an important tool for raising school quality. …

Nationwide, close to 40 million adults lack a high school diploma or a General Educational Development (GED) credential …. Nearly a quarter of high school freshmen do not graduate and, in many large cities, dropout rates in recent years have stood … at around 50 percent. And while most high school dropouts eventually do continue their education — usually through adult …

Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … analyze whether the initial assignment to different school tracks has persistent effects on educational attainment and … earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …

both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school …

both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school …

cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school GPA and …