Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout

Katja Coneus, Johannes Gernandt and Marianne Saam
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Marianne Saam and Marianne Saam

Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2011, vol. 131, issue 4, 547-568

Abstract: We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data on 17- to 21-year-olds from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. Beyond the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. At constant school grades, noncognitive skills reduce the risk of becoming an educational dropout. The influence of school achievements on the dropout probability tends to decrease and the influence of noncognitive skills tends to increase with age.

JEL-codes: I21 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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