[Lmresearch] New CDRP statistical brief--Educational and Economic Consequences for Students Who Drop Out of High School

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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     STATISTICAL BRIEF 5

      Educational and Economic Consequences for Students Who Drop Out of High School
      Susan Rotermund (UC Santa Barbara)
      The consequences for students who drop out of high school are well known. Such students earn less, have more health problems, are more likely to be unemployed and are more likely to rely on government assistance (see CDRP Policy Brief 1). Less understood is what happens to high school students who drop out at least once during the course of their high school education. Do they ever return to school and earn a diploma or an alternative certification? Or do they remain permanent dropouts? What are the long-term economic consequences for these students?

      This brief draws on data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) to investigate the subsequent educational attainment and earnings of a nationally representative sample of students who were tracked from the time they were eighth-graders in 1988 through 2000, when most of the respondents were 26 years old. Among all students in the cohort, 19% dropped out of high school at least once; in California, 22% did so. What ultimately happened to these students by the end of the study in 2000?

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      The California Dropout Research Project is undertaking research to inform policymakers and the larger public about the nature of--and potential solutions to--the dropout problem in California. For more information: http://www.lmri.ucsb.edu/dropouts  
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