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The effectiveness of active school attendance interventions to tackle dropout in secondary schools: a Dutch pilot case

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  • Sofie Cabus
  • Kristof Witte

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Unauthorized truancy is considered as one of the earliest signals of a prospective school dropout decision. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an active school attendance intervention tackling school dropout in Dutch secondary education. The intervention consists of increased care for, and interaction with, at-risk students by, for example, visits at home. It relies on professional mentors, teachers, case managers, social workers, and compulsory education age consultants. We analyze the effect of the intervention by a difference-in-differences analysis in combination with matching estimation techniques. The results indicate that the intervention schools significantly reduced school dropout with $$-0.54$$ - 0.54 % points in the school year 2009–2010 compared to the control schools and the school year 2008–2009. The highest impact ( $$-1.4$$ - 1.4 % points) of the intervention was estimated for the least able students. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Sofie Cabus & Kristof Witte, 2015. "The effectiveness of active school attendance interventions to tackle dropout in secondary schools: a Dutch pilot case," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 65-80, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:49:y:2015:i:1:p:65-80
    DOI: 10.1007/s00181-014-0865-z
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    Keywords

    Effectiveness; Dropout prevention; Secondary education; Truancy; I21; I28;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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