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School Failure and Intergenerational “Human Capital” Transmission in Portugal

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  • Chagas Lopes, Margarida
  • Medeiros, João

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School Failure and Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission… ABSTRACT A new education reform is about to be passed into Law, in Portugal, the extension of compulsory education until the 12th grade being one of the main goals. Given huge value school failure indicators (e.g., illiteracy rates, drop-outs, retention rates) still exhibit for Portuguese education system, we keep large doubts on the effectiveness of such an aim. Moreover, education outcomes inertia between generations appears to be strong, in the light of some indirect indicators, although no recent specific research has been addressing such an issue. In this paper we therefore try to shed some light on the potential impact intergenerational school achievement would exert upon actual school failing and also control for possible endogeneity both with students' own previous trajectory indicators and school effect. For that purpose, we rely on 2003 data relative to Lisbon Metropolitan Area four schools as case studies (author abstract)

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 26764.

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Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:26764
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Keywords: School failure; father’s; mother’s education; students’ previous school trajectories; school effect; Portugal;

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  1. Michael A. Clemens, 2004. "The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective," Development and Comp Systems 0403007, EconWPA.
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Cited by:

  1. Margarida Chagas Lopes & Fernandes Graça Leão, 2010. "Success/failure in Higher Education: How Long Does it Takes to Complete Some Core 1st. Year Disciplines?," Journal of Research in Educational Sciences, ASERS Publishing, vol. 0(1), pages 32-50, June.
  2. Lopes, Margarida & Fernandes, Graça, 2012. "A comprehensive approach towards academic failure: the case of Mathematics I in ISEG graduation," MPRA Paper 42367, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Chagas Lopes, Margarida, 2006. "Portuguese Women in Science and Technology (S&T): Some Gender Features Behind MSc. and PhD. Achievement," MPRA Paper 26744, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  4. Chagas Lopes, Margarida & Medeiros, João & PINTO, AQUILES, 2005. "Does School Improve Equity? Some Key Findings from Portuguese Data," MPRA Paper 26762, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  5. Leão Fernandes, Graça & Chagas Lopes, Margarida, 2008. "ISEG Undergraduate Students: Determinants of Academic Performance," MPRA Paper 22082, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  6. Chagas Lopes, Margarida, 2005. "Transições e Pontos Críticos das Trajectórias de Escolaridade: Estudo de Caso em seis Escolas Secundárias da Grande Lisboa
    [Transition and Turning Points in Scholar Trajectories: Case Study with Si    ," MPRA Paper 22102, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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