Migali, Giuseppe; Zucchelli, Eugenio - Department of Economics, Management School - 2014
High school dropout is an important policy issue and its determinants are a longstanding interest of economics. However …, very little is known on the roles of noncognitive traits in influencing school dropout decisions. We employ voluntary … forgone health care as a proxy for the underlying noncognitive traits that may induce adolescents to dropout and estimate its …