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The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion / Brian Jacob, Lars Lefgren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacob, Brian.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13514.
- NBER working paper series no. w13514
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.
- Summary:
- Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade in order to allow them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed academically. This practice is highly controversial, with many researchers claiming that it leads to higher dropout rates although selection issues have complicated previous analyses. In this paper, we use a regression discontinuity design to examine the impact of grade retention on high school completion. We find that grade retention leads to a modest increase in the probability of dropping out for older students, but has no significant effect on younger students.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2007.
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