Manacorda, Marco (2006) Grade failure, drop out and subsequent school outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from Uruguayan administrative data. In: Centre for the Economics of Education Seminar, 2006-12-13, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
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This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on about 100,000 Uruguayan students in public non-vocational Junior High school (grades 7-9) to identify the causal effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity in promotion rates induced by a rule that establishes that a pupil missing more than 25 days during the school year will automatically fail that grade I show that grade failure leads to substantial drop out and lower educational attainment after 4 to 5 years since the time when failure first occurred. Complementary evidence based on a change in the regime of grade promotion provides additional support for this conclusion.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Other) |
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| Official URL: | http://cee.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 the author |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor L Education > L Education (General) |
| JEL classification: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I21 - Analysis of Education I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I22 - Educational Finance J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J20 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2008 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 04:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13278 |
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