School Dropouts: Who Are They and What Can Be Done? [PDF]
While Canada has made progress in the past two decades in terms of lowering high-school dropout rates, those rates remain unacceptably high for boys and certain groups limited by poverty or other factors.
John Richards
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Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out [PDF]
We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify.
Heckman, James J. +2 more
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Scoping Review on Interventions, Actions, and Policies Affecting Return to School and Preventing School Dropout in Primary School. [PDF]
Int J Prev Med, 2023 Eslamian A +4 more
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Theoretical Basis for a Group Intervention Aimed at Preventing High School Dropout: The Case of 'Guttas Campus'. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Ramsdal GH, Wynn R.
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School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural China’s Junior High Schools. [PDF]
Recent anecdotal reports suggest that dropout rates may be higher and actually increasing over time in poor rural areas. There are many reasons not to be surprised that there is a dropout problem, given the fact that China has a high level of poverty ...
Brinton, Carl +5 more
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Menstrual cups and cash transfer to reduce sexual and reproductive harm and school dropout in adolescent schoolgirls in western Kenya: a cluster randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2023 Zulaika G +16 more
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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance [PDF]
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil.
de Janvry, Alain +2 more
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The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water [PDF]
We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her household has ...
Maimaiti, Yasheng, Siebert, W. Stanley
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Gender Differences for Health Indicators in a Sample of School Dropout Adolescents: A Pilot Study. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Mastorci F +8 more
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The Impact of Unhealthy Behaviors on Personalized Well-Being Index in a Sample of School Dropout Adolescents. [PDF]
Children (Basel), 2022 Lazzeri MFL +8 more
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