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Huisman, Janine; Smits, Jeroen – SAGE Open, 2015
We study household and context determinants of school dropout using data for 130,000 children in 363 regions of 30 developing countries using multi-level discrete-time event-history analysis. Most (72%) of the variation in school dropout is due to household-level factors, with socioeconomic resources (parental education, father's occupation, and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention
Herzig, Margaret McCarthy – 1984
A five-year project that used evidence from a variety of disciplines and cultures to develop a framework to help educational policymakers identify ways of achieving the full range of human potential in a given population is described. The project sponsor is an international non-profit institution dedicated to the cause of disadvantaged children…
Descriptors: Biology, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context