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Growth-based School Accountability and Grade Retention Practices (Job Market Paper)

Do accountability rules affect public school retention practices? Using a simple model of grade retention, I show that an administrator will retain students differently depending on the accountability ratings criteria he seeks to maximize. I show …

The Effect of Treatment on the Untreated - Free Primary Education in Kenya

I investigate the effects of expanding access to education on students that would have been students in the absence of expansion to access. Any policy that expands access to education and causes children previously unable or unwilling to attend …