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The Cost of Grade Retention

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: This paper uses administrative longitudinal microdata on junior high school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils with more than three failed subjects, I show that grade failure leads to substantial dropout and lower educational attainment even four to five years after grade failure occurred.

Source: The Review of Economics and Statistics

DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00165

Author: Marco Manacorda

Institutions: Queen Mary University of London, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London School of Economics and Political Science

Language: English

Topic: School Choice and Performance

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council