students early on to reduce early dropout. Grade repetition policies target poorly performing students and are pervasive in … Francophone Africa. Using variation across schools in test score thresholds for promotion to identify the effects of second-grade … repetition, the analysis shows that repeating students are more likely to leave school before completing primary school than …

This chapter investigates the connection between grade repetition and school dropout. Household data is matched against … uses two original identification strategies to identify the effect of grade repetition on school dropout. The first … instrumental strategy uses the differences among teacher attitude to repetition as an instrument for grade repetition. The second …

tracks, I find that the short school years increased grade repetition in primary school, but had no adverse effect on the …

While conventional explanations of drop-out and grade repetition acknowledge the role of socioeconomic factors, this …

standardized grade 12 matriculation exam. We develop a stochastic model of grade repetition that generates predictions consistent … to the importance of considering the stochastic component of grade repetition in analyzing school systems with high …