Family income as a determinant of young people's school attendance in Mexico El ingreso familiar como determinante de la asistencia escolar de los jóvenes en México Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © 2020 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. All rights reserved.This paper calculates the impact of family income on young people's school attendance in Mexico, in a longitudinal context. Based on the rotating panels of the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), a probit econometric model with fixed effects is used to determine the likelihood that a 14-to 18-year-old who lives with their parents and attends school will continue to attend in the following year; the model is controlled by the young person's characteristics, their family, the environment and various temporary changes. Evidence was found that the probability of a young person continuing to attend school increases with family income, and this positive effect is relatively more important in the first deciles of income.

publication date

  • March 1, 2020