Artikel
Grade retention and unobserved heterogeneity
We study the treatment effect of grade retention using a panel of French junior high-school students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multistage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing unobserved individual characteristics. Class-size and latent student-performance indices are assumed to follow finite mixtures of normal distributions. Grade retention may increase or decrease the student's knowledge capital in a type-dependent way. Our estimation results show that the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) of grade reten- tion on test scores is positive but small at the end of grade 9. Treatment effects are heterogeneous: we find that the ATT of grade retention is higher for the weak- est students. We also show that class size is endogenous and tends to increase with unobserved student ability. The average treatment effect of grade retention is neg- ative, again with the exception of the weakest group of students. Grade repetitions reduce the probability of access to grade 9 of all student types.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Quantitative Economics ; ISSN: 1759-7331 ; Volume: 7 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 781-820 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Classification Methods; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Models
- Thema
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Secondary education
grade retention
unobserved heterogeneity
finite mixtures of normal distributions
treatment effects
class-size effects
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gary-Bobo, Robert
Goussé, Marion
Robin, Jean-Marc
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Econometric Society
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New Haven, CT
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.3982/QE524
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Gary-Bobo, Robert
- Goussé, Marion
- Robin, Jean-Marc
- The Econometric Society
Entstanden
- 2016
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