The Cost of Grade Retention

Marco Manacorda ()

No 7889, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data 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 drop-out and lower educational attainment even four to five years after grade failure first occurred.

Keywords: Grade retention; School drop-out; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I22 J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06
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