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High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis / John P. Papay, John B. Willett, Richard J. Murnane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Papay, John P.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17112.
- NBER working paper series no. w17112
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on mathematics and English language arts tests. Barely passing both examinations, as opposed to failing them, increases the probability that students graduate by 7.6 percentage points. The effects are greater for students scoring near each cutoff than for students further away from them. We explain how the multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach provides insights over conventional methods for making causal inferences when multiple variables assign individuals to a range of treatments.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2011.
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