Patterns, Consequences, and Possible Causes of Dropout in Upper Secondary Education in Mexico

Table 2

Relationship between USE school dropout at ages 15–18 and individual factors, 2012 (marginal effects from Probit estimation).

Independent variable	Coefficient (1)	Coefficient (2)
Female	−0.05	−0.02
Oportunidades beneficiary	−0.67	−0.56
Female-Oportunidades interaction		−0.12
Indigenous	0.16	0.10
Household per capita income	−0.21	−0.02
Value of household assets	−0.08	−0.04
Rural area	0.12	0.12
Access to health services	−0.13	−0.28
Education of household head	−0.02	−0.02
Education of head’s spouse	−0.04	−0.07
Unemployed household head	0.12	0.16
Household size	0.02	0.01
No. observations	1,559	1,559
Pseudo	0.23	0.23

Source: author’s estimations from ENIGH data.
Statistically significant at 90%, statistically significant at 95%.
statistically significant at 99%.