Student Dropout and Graduation in Colombian Economics Programs

Dropout and graduation from undergraduate students were associated with the socioeconomic context, academic performance and characteristics of the educational institutions. In this paper, we did a characterization of dropout and graduation of students from programs related to economics in Colombia. We estimated a multinomial logit regression to measure marginal effects from a set of individual, familiar, institutional and context factors on dropout and graduation probabilities of Colombian economics students during the 1998 to 2015 time period.

Keywords: Student dropout, graduation, higher education, economics, multinomial logit regression

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González Gutiérrez, María Camila and Silva Arias, Adriana Carolina and Sarmiento Espinel, Jaime Andrés, Student Dropout and Graduation in Colombian Economics Programs (August 22, 2018). Proceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities; Published by Atlantis Press; Part of Series: ASSEHR; ISSN: 2352-5398, Volume 211, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266642 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3266642