Access to schooling and staying in school in selected sub-Saharan African countries

This study jointly investigates factors driving the processes of accessing and staying in school in sub‐Saharan Africa. We explicitly account for the fact that staying in school or its converse, dropping out, is observed only among children who ever attend school. We use data from Demographic and He...

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Published in:African development review 2015-12, Vol.27 (4), p.403-414
Main Authors: Kuépié, Mathias, Shapiro, David, Tenikue, Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Access
Access to education
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Boys
Developing countries
Development economics
Dropping out
Economic theory
Educational attainment
Females
Girls
Households
LDCs
Manycountries
Rural areas
Rural communities
Schulbesuch
Socioeconomic factors
Studies
Subsahara-Afrika
Youth
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Summary:This study jointly investigates factors driving the processes of accessing and staying in school in sub‐Saharan Africa. We explicitly account for the fact that staying in school or its converse, dropping out, is observed only among children who ever attend school. We use data from Demographic and Health Surveys from 12 countries. We find that access to school is typically lower for females, rural youth, and those from poorer households. Conditional on having ever attended school, these factors, as well as age in grade – an indicator of performance in school – typically help account for staying in school. We also find that keeping girls at school is very sensitive to school performance: girls with comparatively weak performance in school are more likely than their male counterparts to drop out of school, while girls who do relatively well in school are more likely to remain in school than boys, other things being equal.
ISSN:1467-8268
1017-6772
1467-8268
DOI:10.1111/1467-8268.12156