Browsing by Subject "Dropout behavior, Prediction of"

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The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; O'Sullivan, Vincent ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-07-01)

This paper addresses the intergenerational transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in parental background. An important contribution of the ...
Psychological, economic and academic predictors of the intention to leave school early among a sample of Irish students

Freeney, Yseult ; O'Connell, Michael F. (Combat Poverty Agency, 2009-12)

Early school-leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties ...
Taking the easy way out : how the GED testing program induces students to drop out

Heckman, James J. ; LaFontaine, Paul A. ; Rodriguez, Pedro L. (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)

We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the diffculty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED ...