University drop-out: an Italian experience
Belloc, Filippo, Maruotti, Antonello and Petrella, Lea (2010) University drop-out: an Italian experience. Higher Education, 60, (2), 127-138. (doi:10.1007/s10734-009-9290-1).
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University students’ drop-out is a crucial issue for the universities’ efficiency evaluation and funding. In this paper, we analyze the drop-out rate of the Economics and Business faculty of Sapienza University of Rome. We use administrative data on 9,725 undergraduates students enrolled in three-years bachelor programs from 2001 to 2007 and perform a Generalized Linear Mixed Model. Our aim is to improve the general understanding of the students’ withdrawing focusing on personal characteristics of students rather than on institutional aspects of the university. The empirical analysis unveils the statistically significant effect of students’ characteristics, like citizenship and income, while the main findings relate a high drop-out probability to a high secondary school final mark and a low individual students’ performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0018-1560 (print) 1573-174X (electronic) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social and Human Sciences > Mathematics > Statistics Faculty of Social and Human Sciences > Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute |
| Item ID: | 342304 |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2012 10:49 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2012 15:48 |
| Contributors: | Belloc, Filippo (Author) Maruotti, Antonello (Author) Petrella, Lea (Author) |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/342304 |
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