Do girls have a higher school drop-out rate than boys? A hazard rate analysis of evidence from a third world city

Urban Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-62

  Akhtar, Sajjad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FEMALE EDUCATION; GENDER ANALYSIS; SCHOOL DROP-OUT RATE;

PAKISTAN, KARACHI;

EID: 0029769577     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420989650012112     Document Type: Article

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