Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

Eric Hanushek, Victor Lavy and Kohtaro Hitomi

Journal of Human Capital, 2008, vol. 2, issue 1, 69-105

Abstract: School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked. Unique panel data on primary school-age children in Egypt permit estimation of behavioral models of school leaving that incorporate output-based measures of school quality. With the student's own ability and achievement held constant, a student is much less likely to remain in school if attending a low-quality school rather than a high-quality school. This individually rational behavior suggests that common arguments about a trade-off between quality and access to schools may misstate the real issue and lead to public investment in too little quality.

Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (61)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/529446 (text/html)
Access to the online full text or PDF requires a subscription.

Related works:
Working Paper: Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries (2006)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucp:jhucap:v:2:i:1:y:2008:p:69-105

DOI: 10.1086/529446

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Human Capital from University of Chicago Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journals Division ().