How much do socio-economic conditions influence people's schooling duration?

Carmen García Prieto and Julio López Díaz

Applied Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 15, issue 3, pages 213-216

Abstract: A wide sample of countries has been used to contrast the effective influence on the population's schooling duration of some variables usually considered in theoretical models. But we have also found that socio-economic conditions have a special influence because they reduce the chance that people have to access the educational system.

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