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Table 5 Female enrollment and household formation, by program type

From: Safety valve or sinkhole? Vocational schooling in South Africa

   

Dropout only

Re-enrollment only

Program type

Academic

Vocational

Academic

Vocational

Academic

Vocational

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Pregnancy

-0.09

-0.01

-0.18

-0.02

-0.01

-0.01

 

(0.03)***

(0.01)

(0.05)***

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.01)

Pregnancy (t−1)

-0.12

-0.01

-0.31

-0.02

-0.01

-0.02

 

(0.03)***

(0.004)***

(0.06)***

(0.01)*

(0.02)

(0.01)**

Marriage

-0.04

0.004

-0.09

0.01

-0.02

0.001

 

(0.02)

(0.01)

(0.16)

(0.08)

(0.01)

(0.004)

Marriage (t−1)

0.06

0.02

0.16

0.02

0.02

0.02

 

(0.03)**

(0.02)

(0.16)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

Observations

14,053

14,053

7,071

7,071

6,982

6,982

R-squared

0.65

0.24

0.60

0.33

0.64

0.38

No. individuals

1,700

1,700

1,692

1,692

1,567

1,567

p-value of difference

      

Pregnancy

0.00

0.00

0.96

Pregnancy (t−1)

0.00

0.00

0.52

Marriage

0.16

0.52

0.15

Marriage (t−1)

0.13

0.35

0.96

  1. Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by individual. *significant at 10%; **significant at 5%; ***significant at 1%. Sample is person-years from estimation sample described in Appendix A Data definitions, females only, with completed education 9 years or more, from CAPS life history panel. Excludes person-years corresponding to Wave 5 for which fraudulent fieldwork suspected. All regressions are survey-weighted linear probability models that include individual fixed effects and age, completed schooling, and calendar year dummies. Vocational programs include technical colleges, NTC and universities of technology. Dropout refers to non-enrollment following a period of enrollment. Re-enrollment refers to enrollment after at least one year of non-enrollment.