Is Mother’s Education or Household Poverty a Better Predictor for Girl’s School Dropout? Evidence from Aggregated Community Effects in Rural India
Joint Authors
Patel, Rachana
Singh, Ajay K
Chandra, Murari
Khanna, Tina
Mehra, Sunil
Source
Education Research International
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-09-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Neighbourhoods and families are key social institutions instilled with development of early life course of adolescents.
Limited research in India has examined exposure to community along with socioeconomic conditions for school-dropouts of girls.
Multidimensional benefits of female education are increasingly recognized in recent years; hence, it becomes imperative to study the community components of school discontinuation particularly in rural area.
This study aims to analyse effect of mother’s education, community poverty, and gender equitable attitudes associated with a girl’s school dropout.
This study uses baseline survey data from an intervention program from poor-performing districts of India.
Collinearity among individual predictors validated by variance inflation factor proceeded step-wise binary-logistic regression.
Result suggests that communities with high concentrations of poverty and mother illiteracy are disadvantages with low gender perception and high levels of dropouts.
Result suggests that girls living in poor communities are three times more likely to dropout and 70% more if belonged to communities with lower mother literacy.
Girls who scored low on Gender Equitable Scale had less probability to dropout.
The study concludes that girls from poor communities with low levels of mother literacy and non-egalitarian gender attitudes are at higher risk of school dropout.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Patel, Rachana& Singh, Ajay K& Chandra, Murari& Khanna, Tina& Mehra, Sunil. 2018. Is Mother’s Education or Household Poverty a Better Predictor for Girl’s School Dropout? Evidence from Aggregated Community Effects in Rural India. Education Research International،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157010
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Patel, Rachana…[et al.]. Is Mother’s Education or Household Poverty a Better Predictor for Girl’s School Dropout? Evidence from Aggregated Community Effects in Rural India. Education Research International No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157010
American Medical Association (AMA)
Patel, Rachana& Singh, Ajay K& Chandra, Murari& Khanna, Tina& Mehra, Sunil. Is Mother’s Education or Household Poverty a Better Predictor for Girl’s School Dropout? Evidence from Aggregated Community Effects in Rural India. Education Research International. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157010
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1157010