ERIC Number: EJ1125566
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-1557-3060
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Closer to the Finish Line? Compulsory Attendance, Grade Attainment, and High School Graduation
Moussa, Wael S.
Education Finance and Policy, v12 n1 p28-53 Win 2017
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.
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Graduation Rate, High School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10, Educational Attainment, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Cohort Analysis, School Entrance Age, Probability
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 9; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Grade 10
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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