Effectiveness of grade retention: A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Goos, J Pipa, F Peixoto - Educational Research Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on the effectiveness of grade retention has a long history, yet, has seen an
upsurge during the last decade. In this study, we review 84 recent, methodologically sound …

Effects of grade retention policies: A literature review of empirical studies applying causal inference

J Valbuena, M Mediavilla, Á Choi… - Journal of Economic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of the causal effects of grade retention policies is of enormous relevance
for researchers and policymakers alike. Taking advantage of the availability of more detailed …

Identification and semiparametric efficiency theory of nonignorable missing data with a shadow variable

W Miao, L Liu, Y Li, EJ Tchetgen Tchetgen… - ACM/JMS Journal of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We consider identification and estimation with an outcome missing not at random (MNAR).
We study an identification strategy based on a so-called shadow variable. A shadow …

On varieties of doubly robust estimators under missingness not at random with a shadow variable

W Miao, EJ Tchetgen Tchetgen - Biometrika, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Suppose we are interested in the mean of an outcome variable missing not at random.
Suppose however that one has available a fully observed shadow variable, which is …

Identifying effects of multiple treatments in the presence of unmeasured confounding

W Miao, W Hu, EL Ogburn, XH Zhou - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Identification of treatment effects in the presence of unmeasured confounding is a persistent
problem in the social, biological, and medical sciences. The problem of unmeasured …

Non-parametric inference about mean functionals of non-ignorable non-response data without identifying the joint distribution

W Li, W Miao… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We consider identification and inference about mean functionals of observed covariates and
an outcome variable subject to non-ignorable missingness. By leveraging a shadow …

[PDF][PDF] Source condition double robust inference on functionals of inverse problems

A Bennett, N Kallus, X Mao, W Newey… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We consider estimation of parameters defined as linear functionals of solutions to linear
inverse problems. Any such parameter admits a doubly robust representation that depends …

Are labels informative in semi-supervised learning? Estimating and leveraging the missing-data mechanism.

A Sportisse, H Schmutz, O Humbert… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Semi-supervised learning is a powerful technique for leveraging unlabeled data to improve
machine learning models, but it can be affected by the presence of “informative" labels …

European variations in socioeconomic inequalities in students' cognitive achievement: The role of educational policies

N Le Donné - European Sociological Review, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In the light of past sociological research in education, we analyze socioeconomic
inequalities in cognitive competences among students reaching the end of compulsory …

Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

B Cockx, M Picchio, S Baert - Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A dynamic discrete‐choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high
school, both in the short run (end‐of‐year evaluation) and in the long run (drop‐out and …