No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time

Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian

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“…The dismissal policies we leverage generate large discontinuities in academic outcomes, in line with the previous literature, which has examined similar institutional discontinuities (Lindo et al, 2010;Vidal-Fernandez, 2011;Barua and Vidal-Fernandez, 2014). Students just below the cutoff are approximately 16 percentage points less likely to enroll in the following term, complete 0.2 fewer years of school and are 10 percentage points less likely to obtain a BA relative to those above the threshold.…”

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The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies

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Webber

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 74%