High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: Evidence From Regression-Discontinuity Approaches

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-27

  Papay, John P ^a   Murnane, Richard J ^b   Willett, John B ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Exit examinations; high stakes tests; regression discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892429098     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2013.819398     Document Type: Article

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