To address the dropout crisis requires a better understanding of why students drop out.
Although dropouts themselves report a variety of reasons for leaving school, these reasons …

I survey the evidence on patterns in US high school graduation rates over the period 1970–
2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence. I begin …

We derive an inference method that works in differences-in-differences settings with few
treated and many control groups in the presence of heteroskedasticity. As a leading …

Education reform proposals are often based on high-profile or dramatic policy changes,
many of which are expensive, politically controversial, or both. In this paper, we argue that …

We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public
schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based …

We examine the implications of separating students of different grade levels across schools
for the purposes of educational production. Specifically, we find that moving students from …

Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth
grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline …

This paper combines machine learning with economic theory in order to analyse high school
dropout. It provides an algorithm to predict which students are going to drop out of high …

Despite limited empirical evidence, there is growing concern that junk food availability in
schools has contributed to the childhood obesity epidemic. In this paper, we estimate the …

Descriptive evidence shows that English learners (ELs) have lower high school graduation
and 4-year-college attendance rates than monolingual and fluent English users. Applying …