Vocational education: coursetaking choice and impact on dropout and college enrollment rates

Rafaela Henriques (), Luis Nunes, Ana Reis and Maria do Carmo Seabra ()
Additional contact information
Rafaela Henriques: Nova School of Business and Economics
Maria do Carmo Seabra: Nova SBE

Chapter 02 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2018, vol. 13, pp 37-56 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: This work investigates which factors underlie the students’ decision on which secondary track program to enroll in, and its impact on dropout and college enrollment rates. By separating the analysis between low and high-ability students, we find a heterogeneous effect of vocational coursetaking on dropout probabilities, which increase for high-achievers and decrease for low-achievers. Hence, whereas vocational education appears to be successful in engaging students “at risk” in school, it may hinder the academic success of the high-achievers. Special attention is given to the confounding variables used to estimate this effect. Apart from past school performance, previous retentions, college expectations and parents’ education seem to be good predictors of both educational decisions and outcomes.

Keywords: Vocational Education; Tracking; Dropout Prevention; High School (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
ISBN: 978-84-949813-2-6
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.economicsofeducation.com/2018barcelona/13-02.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 500 Can't connect to repec.economicsofeducation.com:80 (No such host is known. )

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aec:ieed13:13-02

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 13 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Domingo P. Ximénez-de-Embún ().