Peer relations and dropout behavior: Evidence from junior high school students in northwest rural China

Shen Gao, Meredith Yang, Xiaohong Wang, Wenbin Min and Scott Rozelle

International Journal of Educational Development, 2019, vol. 65, issue C, 134-143

Abstract: A startling number of students drop out from junior high school in rural China every year. Little is known about the social aspect of the dropout process in rural China. The goal of this paper is to examine the relationship between student peer relations and dropout behavior in rural China’s junior high schools. Covering 4596 students in 38 schools, our study finds that 6.9 percent of grade 7 students did not finish school, along with 12.3 percent of grade 8 students. Using a “push out and pull out” framework to understand peer relations, results suggest that both push out and pull out factors are strongly associated with student dropout.

Keywords: Dropout; Peer relations; Junior high school; Rural China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2018.04.001

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