Primary school attendance in Honduras
Primary school attendance in Honduras
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洪都拉斯的小学入学率
DOI：
10.1016/s0304-3878(02)00056-1
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
Jeffery H. Marshall
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作者：
A. Bedi;Jeffery H. Marshall
1990年代，洪都拉斯在扩大教育机会方面取得了令人瞩目的成就，几乎所有儿童都能接受初等教育。随着获取途径的改善，重点已转移到质量和效率问题上。先前的研究表明，学生的学业成绩仍然很低，而留级率和逃学率仍然很高。这些结果的一个重要原因似乎在于上学的模式。学校出勤率低可能是学业成绩低的原因，而学业成绩低又与高留级率和逃学率有关。认识到这种可能的事件链，本文将重点放在学校出勤决策上。我们依靠最近从洪都拉斯小学的全国样本中收集的数据来指定和估计入学率模型。我们发现，上学预期收益的增加对上学决策有很强的影响。
Honduras has recorded impressive gains in expanding educational access in the 1990s, with the result that primary education is available to almost all children. With improved access, the focus has shifted to quality and efficiency issues. Previous research suggests that academic achievement is still quite low, while repetition and school desertion rates continue to remain high. An important cause of these outcomes appears to lie in patterns of school attendance. Low levels of school attendance may be responsible for low academic achievement, which, in turn, is linked to high repetition and desertion rates. Recognizing this probable chain of events, this paper focuses on the school attendance decision. We rely on recently collected data from a national sample of Honduran primary schools to specify and estimate a model of school attendance. We find that increases in the expected benefits of attending school exert a strong impact on the school attendance decision.