A strong incentive for studying the dropout phenomenon in the context of Italian tertiary education, both from the positive standpoint and from the regulatory one, is because higher education institutions are evaluated and then financially supported also on the base of parameters such as the...

Ivan Gruzdev, M.A. in Sociology, analyst at the Internal Monitoring Center, National Research University -Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: van@gorod.org.ru Yelena Gorbunova, M.A in Sociology, analyst at the Internal Monitoring Center, National Research University...

The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...

To stimulate private sector credit expansions in Pakistan, the monetary policy has been accommodative while financial sector reforms have brought about a lowering of intermediation costs and bank spreads. Consequently, the weighted average lending rates have declined from 14.6 percent in June...