The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

By Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren. 2009

279 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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In Education

1. Guido Schwerdt
2. Martin R. West
3. M. Fares Hout
4. Marcus A. Winters
5. Stuart W. Elliott
6. Ludger Woessmann

In Safety Research

1. M. Fares Hout
2. Martin R. West
3. Marcus A. Winters
4. Guido Schwerdt
5. Stuart W. Elliott

Citations in the corpus

• Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education (2011, background): “During the first 3 years of the program, retention rates in these grades increased to 10-20 percent, far above the prior level of 1-2 percent (Jacob and Lefgren, 2009).”
• The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida (2017, methodology): “1 Influential studies in this area include Jimerson (1999) and Jimerson et al.”
• Does Grade Retention Affect Achievement? Some Evidence from PISA (2011, background): “However, Jacob and Lefgren (2009), who study the long-run e¤ects of retention on high school completion, nd positive e¤ects of grade retention on education attainment for low-achieving third 3Some studies have found that retention is associated with increased drop-out rates (see Jimerson et al.…”