Grade repetition in primary school and socio-residential inequalities: The case of Côte d’Ivoire

Repetición de curso en la escuela primaria y desigualdades socio-residenciales: El caso de Costa de Marfil

Kady Marie-Danielle Body (), Liliane Bonnal () and Pascal Favard ()
Additional contact information
Kady Marie-Danielle Body: CREMIDE - Cellule de Recherche en Microéconomie du Développement [Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny] - UFHB - Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny [Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire], LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers
Liliane Bonnal: LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers, TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Pascal Favard: IRJI - Institut de Recherche Juridique Interdisciplinaire - UT - Université de Tours, LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This study analyses the profile of children repeating at least one grade of primary school before grade 5 (CM1) in Côte d'Ivoire, using a sample of 8,372 pupils drawn from the 2009, 2014, and 2019 PASEC surveys and applying multilevel logit models. It highlights significant residential inequalities: Children living in rural areas are nearly 10 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade than those in urban areas. This gap is largely explained by observable characteristics such as age at school entry, involvement in extracurricular work, parental engagement (homework supervision, access to books), and school equipment.

Keywords: Decomposition methods; Multilevel estimation; Primary school repetition; Residential inequalities; Redoublement au primaire; Méthodes de décomposition; Inégalités résidentielles; Estimation multiniveau (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Mondes en Développement, 2025, Varia (mouvements de capitaux, agriculture contractuelle de proximité, décroissance, enseignement), 2025/4 (53), pp.73-89. ⟨10.3917/med.212.0073⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

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:hal:journl:hal-05419640

DOI: 10.3917/med.212.0073

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().