Gary-Bobo, Robert; Goussé, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 3, pp. 781-820
We study the treatment effect of grade retention using a panel of French junior high-school students, taking unobserved …-performance indices are assumed to follow finite mixtures of normal distributions. Grade retention may increase or decrease the student’s … that the ATT of grade retention is higher for the weak- est students. We also show that class size is endogenous and tends …