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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes : Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects
Contributor:
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley;
Navarro, Salvador;
Takahashi, Yuya
Published:
The University of Chicago Press, 2016
Published in:
Journal of Labor Economics, 34 (2016) 4, Seite 979-1021
Language:
English
ISSN:
0734-306X;
1537-5307
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
We show how the effect of grade retention varies by abilities, by timing of retention, and as time since retention elapses. Existing studies of grade retention are not well equipped to deal with the possibility that students retained at different grades differ in unobservable abilities (dynamic selection) and the effects of retention also vary by the student’s abilities and the timing of retention. We extend existing factor analytic methods for identifying treatment effects in such settings. Using ECLS-K data, we find evidence of dynamic selection into retention and of heterogeneous effects of retention by grade and unobservable abilities.