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# **Table 8. Correlates with Drop-out, Repetition and Failure Rates**

||||||**Dependent**|**variable:**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Drop-o**|**ut rate**|||**Repeti**|**tion rate**||**Fa**|**ilure rate**|**(final exa**|**m)**|
|(1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)|(6)|(7)|(8)|(9)|(10)|(11)|(12)|
|**RESOURCES**||||||||||||
|**Rural school**<br>0.00<br>||||-0.00<br>||||**0.01***<br>||||
|(0.009)||||(0.002)||||**(0.008)**||||
|Public transportation<br>0.01<br>||||0.00<br>||||0.01<br>||||
|(0.007)||||(0.002)||||(0.009)||||
|No electricity (days)<br>0.00<br>(0.000)||||-0.00<br>(0.000)||||0.00<br>(0.001)||||
|No telephone<br>0.01<br>||||0.00<br>||||0.00<br>||||
|(0.011)<br>No library<br>-0.01||||(0.005)<br>0.00||||(0.007)<br>-0.01||||
|<br> <br>(0.008)||||<br>(0.003)||||<br>(0.012)||||
|**Motivated teachers**<br>**-0.04*****||||0.01||||-0.01||||
|<br> <br>**(0.012)**||||<br>(0.008)||||<br>(0.017)||||
|Teacher exerience<br>-000||||000||||000||||
|p<br>.<br>(0.001)||||.<br>(0.000)||||.<br>(0.001)||||
|Ln (teacher wage)<br>0.05||||-0.02||||-0.03||||
|<br>(0.046)||||(0.020)||||(0.045)||||
|**TOP-DOWN ACCOUNTABILIT**|**Y AND T**|**RANSPAR**|**ENCY**|||||||||
|RED inspections|-0.00||||-0.00||||-0.00|||
||(0.000)||||(0.000)||||(0.000)|||
|SD not subject to sanctions|<br>0.00<br>||||<br>-0.00<br>||||<br>0.01<br>|||
|Th t bt t ti|(0.009)<br>001||||(0.003)<br>000||||(0.012)<br>000|||
|eacers no sujec o sancons|-.<br>(0.014)||||-.<br>(0.004)||||.<br>(0.015)|||
|Th bM09|<br>000||||<br>000||||<br>001|||
|eacers asence-ay|.<br>||||-.<br>||||-.<br>|||
||(0.003)||||(0.001)||||(0.005)|||
|Teacher absence register|<br>-0.01<br>||||<br>0.00<br>||||<br>0.01<br>|||
||(0.020)||||(0.004)||||(0.017)|||
|Corrution in teacher aointment|<br>003||||<br>000||||<br>004|||
|p pp|.<br>(0.023)||||.<br>(0.007)||||.<br>(0.033)|||
|**PARTICIPATORY ACCOUNTA**<br>|**BILITY**|**AND PAR**<br>*******|**ENTS’ IN**|**VOLVE**|**MENT**|*****||||||
|**N. SB meetings**||**-0.01**||||**-0.00**||||-0.00||
|||**(0.004)**||||**(0.001)**||||(0.005)||
|**Director can vote**||<br>**0.01**||||<br>**-0.00****||||<br>-0.00||
|||**(0.009)**<br>||||**(0.002)**<br>||||(0.013)<br>||
|No info about participatory organs||0.01<br>(0014)||||0.01<br>(0009)||||-0.00<br>(0010)||
|No info about teachers‟ names||.<br>-0.00||||.<br>-0.01||||.<br>0.02||
|||(0010)||||(0006)||||(0011)||
|N. of meetings with teachers||.<br>-0.01||||.<br>0.00||||.<br>-0.01||
|||(0005)||||(0005)||||(0016)||
|**Lack of parental involvement in s**|**chool**|.<br>0.03||||.<br>**0.02***||||.<br>0.01||
|||(0.032)||||**(0.012)**||||(0.029)||
|**PARENTS’ CHARACTERISTIC**|**S**|||||||||||
|Mother yrs. of education|||0.00||||0.00||||-0.00|
||||(0.004)||||(0.002)||||(0.005)|
|**Father yrs. of education**|||-0.01<br>||||**-0.00***<br>||||-0.00<br>|
|N. books in hh|||(0.004)<br>0.00||||**(0.002)**<br>0.00||||(0.005)<br>0.00|
||||(0.000)||||(0.000)||||(0.000)|
|Economic status|||-0.00<br>0006||||-0.00<br>0006||||-0.02<br>0010|
|Constant<br>-0.42|0.05**|0.06***|(.)<br>0.10***|0.26|0.02|0.02*|(.)<br>0.04**|0.31|0.04*|0.06***|(.)<br> <br>0.08*|
|(0.483)|(0.024)|(0.015)|(0.030)|(0.216)|(0.015)|(0.013)|(0.019)|(0.479)|(0.022)|(0.020)|(0.040)|
|Observations<br>167|164|161|169|174|169|168|177|170|165|165|173|
|R-squared<br>0.218|0.176|0.231|0.199|0.093|0.068|0.130|0.102|0.116|0.117|0.131|0.124|

Note: Robust standard errors, in parentheses, have been adjusted to account for clustering within districts. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.