Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?

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Croatian Economic Survey, Vol. 19 No. 2, 2017.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1

Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?

Nikica Mojsoska Blazevski orcid.org/0000-0003-0777-8985 ; University American College Skopje, School of Business Economics and Management, Macedonia
Marjan Petreski orcid.org/0000-0002-2675-8325 ; University American College Skopje, School of Business Economics and Management, Macedonia
Maja Ristovska orcid.org/0000-0002-2240-102X ; University American College Skopje, School of Business Economics and Management, Macedonia

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APA 6th Edition

Mojsoska Blazevski, N., Petreski, M. & Ristovska, M. (2017). Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?. Croatian Economic Survey, 19 (2), 5-46. https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1

MLA 8th Edition

Mojsoska Blazevski, Nikica, et al. "Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?." Croatian Economic Survey, vol. 19, no. 2, 2017, pp. 5-46. https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.

Chicago 17th Edition

Mojsoska Blazevski, Nikica, Marjan Petreski and Maja Ristovska. "Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?." Croatian Economic Survey 19, no. 2 (2017): 5-46. https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1

Harvard

Mojsoska Blazevski, N., Petreski, M., and Ristovska, M. (2017). 'Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?', Croatian Economic Survey, 19(2), pp. 5-46. https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1

Vancouver

Mojsoska Blazevski N, Petreski M, Ristovska M. Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?. Croatian Economic Survey [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2024 November 18];19(2):5-46. https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1

IEEE

N. Mojsoska Blazevski, M. Petreski and M. Ristovska, "Breaking Up the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: How Can the School Performance of Children from Low-Income Households in Macedonia Be Improved?", Croatian Economic Survey, vol.19, no. 2, pp. 5-46, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.15179/ces.19.2.1

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the factors that affect educational achievements of children from low-income households in Macedonia. In addition, we compare the two distinctive social programs that provide assistance for children from poor households in the country. Our empirical strategy is based on the education production function, which is estimated using the ordinary least squares (OLS) and ordered probit approach. We regress an indicator for educational achievement on three groups of factors: i) individual characteristics; ii) household characteristics; and iii) school-related characteristics/variables. The findings suggest that all three sets of factors are significantly related with the school performance of young individuals. Individual- and family-related factors are more important than the school climate, although this finding may be related to the availability (and hence, the choice) of the school-related variables. Gender, father’s education, and ethnicity were found to be significantly related to the educational achievement of students. Among the family factors, we find that the number of rooms at home and household consumption are positively related to school performance. On the other hand, household size, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) acceptance and the measures of parental involvement are negatively related to achievement. We find that only one measure of school context, the average grade in school, is significant.

Keywords

school performance; low-income households; Macedonia; education production function; conditional cash transfers

Hrčak ID:

192365

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/192365

Publication date:

29.12.2017.

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