Determinants of secondary school dropouts in Vietnam: panel data evidence

Abstract

This paper investigates the socioeconomic determinants of dropout behavior of Vietnamese children in secondary schools using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey for 2006 and 2008 and logistic regression model for Panel data. Determinants are considered at individual, household, schooling, and regional levels. My findings reveal that the unobserved individual characteristics account for 17% in propensity of dropping out of secondary schools in different years 2006 and 2008. Furthermore, the results disclose that child gender, child age, child ethnic, child inactive days, household expenditure, household head gender, household head education, the number of children between 1 and 17 years old, cost of school, urban-rural, and regions have statistically significant relationship with secondary school dropout.