Economic determinants of academic failure and school desertion in the Guatemala highlands.

Autor/inn/en	Carvajal, Manuel J.; Morris, F. Kay; Davenport, Lillian M.
Titel	Economic determinants of academic failure and school desertion in the Guatemala highlands.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 12 (1993) 1, S. 59-70Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 19; Tabellen 6
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/0272-7757(93)90043-G
Schlagwörter	Soziale Herkunft; Schule; Primarbereich; Schulerfolg; Schulversagen; Ländlicher Raum; Abbruch; Ethnische Gruppe; Guatemala
Abstract	Guatemala's four major indigenous (i. e. ethnic) groups provide the setting for a model explaining elementary schooling discontinuity in terms of economic characteristics that might affect availability and quality of teaching facilities, perceptions of curriculum relevance, expectation of long term gains and enhancement of employment alternatives through formal education, and children's opportunity cost.... Coefficients are estimated separately for academic failure and school abandonment for each indigenous group. The levels of statistical significance show that the model explains academic failure better than it explains school desertion. These levels differ among groups for the seven variables in the model, thus implying that a national indigenous policy that fails to incorporate in its structure features unique to each group may be inadequate. (DIPF/Abstract uebernommen/Bi.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	1996_(CD)