Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal

Sabal Sharma and David Levinson ()
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David Levinson: TransportLab, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney

No 172, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: The study relates the association between travel time to the lower secondary and secondary public schools of Nepal and the dropout grade before leaving secondary school using an ordered logit model. It is shown that as the travel time to the school increases, students are more likely to dropout from the school system in earlier grades. The results from this study will be useful to policymakers, especially from developing countries, as it places transport in the context of education.

Keywords: Education; Transport; Nepal; Dropout; Travel Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 O18 O20 R20 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Transportation Research part A. 130, 385-397.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2019.09.010

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