Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … investigates the post-secondary effects of an alternative high school graduation program. Among students who initially fail an exit … complete high school, those students who take the alternative pathway have better post-secondary outcomes in both education and …