Closer to the Finish Line? Compulsory Attendance, Grade Attainment, and High School Graduation

Autor/in	Moussa, Wael S.
Titel	Closer to the Finish Line? Compulsory Attendance, Grade Attainment, and High School Graduation
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 12 (2017) 1, S.28-53 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/EDFP_a_00216
Schlagwörter	Compulsory Education; Graduation Rate; High School Students; Grade 9; Grade 10; Educational Attainment; Public Schools; Urban Schools; Cohort Analysis; School Entrance Age; Probability; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulpflicht; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Kohortenanalyse; Einschulungsalter; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Abstract	High school graduation rates are a central policy topic in the United States and have been shown to be stagnant for the past three decades. Using student-level administrative data from New York City Public Schools, I examine the impact of compulsory school attendance on high school graduation rates and grade attainment, focusing the analysis on ninth and tenth grade cohorts. I exploit the interaction between the school start-age cutoff and compulsory attendance age requirement to identify the effect of compulsory schooling. I find that an additional year in compulsory attendance leads to an increase of 9 to 12 percent in the probability of progressing to grades 11 and 12, and raises the probability of graduating from high school by 9 to 14 percent, depending on the specification. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01