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- Title
The Cost of Retention Under a Test-Based Promotion Policy for Taxpayers and Students.
- Authors
Winters, Marcus A.
- Abstract
Prior research substantially overstates the cost of retention under test-based promotion policies to both taxpayers and students who delay labor market entry because it omits two important factors. First, there is a delay between the intervention and the taxpayer's expenditure. Second, on average, the treatment leads to less than a full year of additional schooling. I provide formulas for calculating the cost of grade retention within a test-based promotion policy and illustrate using data from Florida. Retaining a third-grade student under Florida's policy was about 45% less costly to taxpayers and about 37% less costly to retained students than would be suggested by prior authors.
- Subjects
FLORIDA; GRADE repetition; MARKET entry; LABOR market; EDUCATION policy; SCHOOL year
- Publication
Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 4, p688
- ISSN
0162-3737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3102/01623737221138041