Gary-Bobo, Robert; Gousse, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc - Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP) - 2014
We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing...