Estimating the Impact of Absences on Student Achievement in Secondary School

The talk presented estimates of the impact of absences on student achievement in secondary school. Jing Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University, presented “Estimating the Impact of Absences on Student Achievement in Secondary School” at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University on April 9, 2019. The talk was part of Annenberg’s Education Policy Workshop Series, an hour-long “works in progress” seminar centered on empirical research related to education and education policy. Speakers come from a variety of disciplinary traditions, and the series welcomes faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and research staff from across the university who are interested in empirical research in education.