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Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal

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  • Sabal Sharma
  • David Levinson

    (TransportLab, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney)

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The study relates the association between travel time to the lower secondary and secondary public schools of Nepal and the dropout grade before leaving secondary school using an ordered logit model. It is shown that as the travel time to the school increases, students are more likely to dropout from the school system in earlier grades. The results from this study will be useful to policymakers, especially from developing countries, as it places transport in the context of education.

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  • Sabal Sharma & David Levinson, 2018. "Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal," Working Papers 172, University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:nex:wpaper:nepal
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2019.09.010
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    JEL classification:

    • R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development

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