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Does Students’ Gender Matter? Parents’ Educational Expectations, Their Determinants, and Consequences in Explaining Students’ Dropout in an Area in Cambodia

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The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia

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Cambodia has experienced remarkable educational expansion at all levels since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979 (Ayres 2000), yet provision of basic education1 to all children remains challenging (Chhinh and Dy 2009). Two major obstacles hamper the provision of basic education to all children: (a) low transition rates from primary to lower secondary school,2 and (b) high dropout rates3 in grades 7–9. According to Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) statistics, 76.8 percent of all promoted 6th graders in 2012/13 transferred to lower secondary school; 21.2 percent of lower secondary students dropped out each grade (MoEYS 2014).

This research benefited from a grant from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). We would like to thank the following people for their support, without whose help this work would never have been possible: Dr. Sitha Chhinh, Dr. D. Brent Edwards, Prof. Dr. Yuto Kitamura, and Mr. Sokha Sung. We also thank Prof. Dr. Volker Stocké, Mr. Daniel Klein, and the participants of the research colloquium at the University of Kassel for fruitful comments and discussions on earlier versions of this paper.

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Zimmermann, T., Williams, J.H. (2016). Does Students’ Gender Matter? Parents’ Educational Expectations, Their Determinants, and Consequences in Explaining Students’ Dropout in an Area in Cambodia. In: Kitamura, Y., Edwards, D.B., Sitha, C., Williams, J.H. (eds) The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456007_7

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