The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Jacob, Brian A.; Lefgren, Lars
署名单位：
University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Brigham Young University
刊物名称：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
1945-7782
DOI：
10.1257/app.1.3.33
发表日期：
2009
页码：
33-58
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摘要：
Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade to allow them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed academically. In this paper, we use plausibly exogenous variation in retention generated by a test-based promotion policy to assess the causal impact of grade retention on high school completion. We find that retention among younger students does not affect the likelihood of high school completion, but that retaining low-achieving eighth grade students in elementary school substantially increases the probability that these students will drop out of high school. (JEL I21, J13)
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