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Hanushek, Eric A.; Lavy, Victor; Hitomi, Kohtaro – Education Working Paper Archive, 2007
School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives on educational policy in developing countries. Unique panel data on primary school age children in Egypt permit estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students perceive differences in school quality, measured as…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Attendance
Hanushek, Eric A.; Lavy, Victor – 1994
This paper demonstrates the analytical importance of employing output-based measures of school quality. The empirical analysis employs data collected in a longitudinal survey of primary school students in Egypt during 2 academic years, 1978-79 and 1979-80. School quality and grade completion are shown to be directly linked, leading to very…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Developing Nations, Dropout Rate