Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?

High School Dropout and Teen Childbearing

In this paper I examine the relationship between high school dropout and teen childbearing. Understanding this relationship is complicated because both phenomena are likely affected by a variety of difficult to control factors. Using a panel data on aggregate dropout and fertility rates by age for all fifty states, I attempt to develop insight by instrumenting for dropout using information on s...

Student engagement and its relationship with early high school dropout.

Although the concept of school engagement figures prominently in most school dropout theories, there has been little empirical research conducted on its nature and course and, more importantly, the association with dropout. Information on the natural development of school engagement would greatly benefit those interested in preventing student alienation during adolescence. Using a longitudinal ...

Adjusting Your Dreams ? High School Plans and Dropout Behavior 1

At the end of middle school, many low-achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disengagement and eventually lead them to drop out of high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achievers can be helped to formulate educational objectives that fit better with their academic aptitudes, throug...

Health in Childhood and Adolescence and High School Dropout

School dropout prevention: what arts-based community and out-of-school-time programs can contribute.

Out-of-school-time programs, especially arts-based programs, can be critical players in a community's efforts to prevent school dropout. This research review suggests the following approaches for arts-based programs: (1) recruitment and retention of target populations with multiple risk factors; (2) long-term skill development that engages youth behaviorally, emotionally, and academically rathe...