Academic performance, childhood economic resources, and the choice to leave school at age 16

A general international observation is that adolescents from disadvantaged families are more likely to leave school at age 16. In this paper we extend the literature on school-leaving decisions by using a new and extensive panel data set from New Zealand; and by examining the effect of family income...

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Volume:	26
Main Author:	Maani, Sholeh A Kalb, Guyonne
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	OXFORD Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 2007 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Elsevier Elsevier B.V
published in:	Economics of education review Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 361 - 374
ORCID:	0000-0001-8205-9687 0000-0001-6582-8608
Data of publication:	2007
ISSN:	0272-7757 1873-7382
EISSN:	1873-7382
Discipline:	Education Economics
Series:	Economics of Education Review
Subjects:	Demand for education Family resources Endogeneity of academic performance Economics Business & Economics Education & Educational Research Social Sciences Family Income Decision Making New Zealand Educational Strategies Disadvantaged Educational Demand Academic Achievement Dropouts Foreign Countries Children Adolescents Environmental Influences New Zealand J18 Demand for education I21 J13 J24 Family resources Endogeneity of academic performance family resources EDUCATION DETERMINANTS COLLEGE endogeneity of academic performance demand for education
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Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2007 Web of Knowledge Web of Science ERIC (Ovid) ERIC( SilverPlatter ) Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) ERIC ERIC ERIC ERIC ERIC PlusText (Legacy Platform) ERIC ERIC (Legacy Platform) RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS