Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills by program type

Leslie Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta, David Reimer () and Anders Holm ()
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David Reimer: Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: We examine the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on enrollment in and completion of three types of vocational training (VET): education/health, technical, and business. Using two nine-year panels of Danish youths, estimation proceeds separately by gender, controlling for selection and right censoring. Cognitive skills are captured with math and language exam scores, non-cognitive skills with teacher-assigned grades. We find that all skills are inversely related to enrollment and math scores are positively related to certification for all VET programs. Language skills are, however, inversely related to completion for technical VET and non-cognitive skills are important only for business VET.

Keywords: Vocational education; Enrollment; Vocational certification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 67
Date: 2017-04-19
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Working Paper: Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type (2017)
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