Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

By Eric A. Hanushek, Victor Lavy, K. Hitomi. Journal of Human Capital, 2008

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The role of educational quality and quantity in the process of economic development (2012, methodology): “31To reduce attenuation bias caused by measurement error, Pritchett (2001) and Krueger and Lindahl (2001) use a former measure of years of schooling by Nehru et al. (1995) and Kyriacou (1991), respectively, as an instrument for an updated measure of years of schooling by Barro and Lee (2001).”
Armed Conflict Exposure, Human Capital Investments, And Child Labor: Evidence From Colombia (2012, unknown): “( 2008 ) show that drop-out decisions are related to school quality, in the sense that students attending low-quality schools are less likely to remain in school compared to those attending high-quality ones.”
Dropping Out: Why are Students Leaving Junior High in China's Poor Rural Areas? (2012, background): “Parents often perceive low returns to educational investment, due in part to the poor quality of local teachers and school facilities (Banerjee et al., 2000; Glewwe and Kremer, 2006; Gould et al., 2004; Hanushek et al., 2008; Rivkin et al., 2005).”