- Author
- Year
- 2010
- Title
- Dropout from secondary education: All's well that begins well
- Number of pages
- 28
- Publisher
- Maastricht: TIER
- ISBN
- 9789400300019
- Series
- TIER working paper series, 10/01
- Document type
- Report
- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
- Institute
- Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
- Abstract
-
Despite the increased attention to students leaving secondary education without a diploma, numerous students dropout yearly. This paper makes a distinction between the individual perspective and the institutional perspective of dropping out. The former is explored by multinominal logit models, with and without accounting for unobserved heterogeneity. We observe that particularly motivation of the student and interest in schooling of his/her parents are crucial predictors of the individual dropout decision. The institutional perspective is examined by ordered logit models, both with and without accounting for unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, we discuss the influence of the first year of secondary education by analysing the large differences in the number of dropouts in Dutch first year classes. We observe that, more than motivation, the first year of secondary education is crucial in shaping the dropping out decision.
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.335534
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