When more schooling is not worth the effort: another look at the dropout decisions of disadvantaged students

This paper shows that when student heterogeneity is introduced in the analysis, differences in the quality of education and in the probability of repetition, typical in developing countries, mark the contrast between an attractive and an inconvenient investment in education. The methodology associat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rossana Patron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur (Ediuns) 2013-12-01
Series:Estudios Económicos
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Online Access:https://revistas.uns.edu.ar/ee/article/view/752