Autori
Belloc, F.
Maruotti, A.
Petrella, L.

Titolo
How individual characteristics effect university students drop-out: a semiparametric mixed approach to an Italian case study
Periodico
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - Dipartimento di Studi Geoeconomici, Linguistici, Statistici e Storici per l'Analisi regionale. Working papers
Anno: 2009 - Fascicolo: 53 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 14

University student dropping-out of the individual faculty is crucial for the faculty organization and its finance. In this paper we analyze the case of "Sapienza" University of Rome and perform a mixed effect model in the presence of binary, endogenous selection variable. In particular we consider a nonparametric maximum likelihood approach, leaving the random effects distribution unspecified. The analysis is carried out on sixteen faculties using individual information on 117464 students enrolled in a three years university program for the 2001-2007 period. As usual dealing with individual characteristics of people and personal choices, endogeneity occurs. Our model specification takes explicity into account the endogeneity of one of the covariates.




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