Do Girls Have a Higher School Drop-out Rate than Boys? A Hazard Rate Analysis of Evidence from a Third World City

Sajjad Akhtar
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Sajjad Akhtar: Applied Economics Research Centre, P.O. Box 8403, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan

Urban Studies, 1996, vol. 33, issue 1, 49-62

Abstract: This paper estimates gender-specific conditional probabilities of drop-out from the schools in Karachi, a large metropolitan city of Pakistan. The analysis is based on the socio-economic and demographic data of family members extracted from a large sample survey of households in the city. Studies in urban Pakistan have found a lower participation rate (unconditional probability) for girls than boys. In contrast, our results indicate that the probability of drop-out of females is lower than boys at institutionally established 'exit' points in the schooling system of Karachi.

Date: 1996
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