TY - JOUR
T1 - Access to Schooling and Staying in School in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries.
AU - Kuepie, Mathias
AU - Shapiro, David
AU - Tenikue, Michel
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - 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 - and 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.
AB - 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 - and 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.
KW - Demographic and Health Surveys
KW - Performance
KW - Sub-Saharian Africa
KW - school
U2 - 10.1111/1467-8268.12156
DO - 10.1111/1467-8268.12156
M3 - Article
SN - 1017-6772
VL - 27
SP - 403
EP - 414
JO - African Development Review
JF - African Development Review
ER -