Determinantes do abandono escolar nas escolas públicas de ensino médio do estado do Ceará

Abstract

School dropout is a problem widely addressed in the literature, because its consequences have a negative influence both on people individually and collectively. In recent years, the government of the State of Ceará has implemented policies that aim to reduce school dropout rates and provide more opportunities for students. In view of this, this work proposes to study the causes that can lead to dropout specifically for 616 public high schools in the state public network of the State of Ceará for the years 2015 to 2019. To perform the data analysis, the model was used Ordinary Least Squares with Fixed Effects. The results showed that the average number of students per class, the age-grade distortion rate and the failure rate are significant variables for the sample and positively influence the dropout rate. On the other hand, the percentage of well-qualified teachers, the number of daily class hours and the crime rate had a negative influence on the variable of interest. For this sample, the variable Dengue, the proxy used as a health indicator, was not significant.