%A Elodie Alet
%A Liliane Bonnal
%A Pascal Favard
%J Annales d'Économie et de Statistique
%T Repetition: Medicine for a Short-Run Remission
%X This paper estimates the treatment effect of grade repetition on subsequent schooling
performances in France. We correct for potential selection issues associated with grade retention,
using a multi-stage econometric model. We find that early grade repetition (Grade 1 or 2) leads to an
increase in test scores in the very short-run (in grade 3) but this positive effect is only transitory, as it
becomes negative 3 or 4 years after the retention (in grade 6).
%N 111-11
%K grade retention
%K treatment effect
%K endogeneity
%P 227-250
%D 2014
%I Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
%L publications15838