Autori
Maruotti, AntonelloPetrella, LeaTitolo
A Semiparametric model for the probability of University Drop-out: an italian experiencePeriodico
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - Dipartimento di Studi Geoeconomici, Linguistici, Statistici e Storici per l'Analisi regionale. Working papersAnno:
2008 - Fascicolo:
42 - Pagina iniziale:
1 - Pagina finale:
15The aim of the paper is to model the probability of dropping out university. We consider a non-parametric maximum likelihood approach in generalized linear mixed models (Aitkin, 1999) to understand the influence of educational background, personal characteristics and related attributes on individual student drop-out rate. We propose a random effects model for binary data, leaving unspecified the random effects distribution. All the parameters estimates are obtained by using the EM algorithm. The empirical data analysis is based upon a data set of approximately 6000 undergraduate students enrolled in the Economics of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" from the 2002-2003 throughout the 2004-2005 academic year.
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