摘要
To understand further the behaviour of high-school dropouts during their periods away from school, this paper studied empirically the decisions of male dropouts on whether to return to school. We applied the bivariate probit, multinomial logit, and waiting-time models to analyse this issue. The estimation results from all three models indicate that the armed forces qualification test score, age, experience of using drugs, local labour-market situation and the duration of the period out of school had significant effects on a male dropout's return decision. Family background variables, contrary to what we expected, had little effect on this decision. © 1994, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.