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Table 7 Baseline estimation results future dropout in the first year for level 1–2 vocational programs

From: Cognitive skills, personality traits and dropout in Dutch vocational education

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Crystallized intelligence

0.008 (0.011)

− 0.013 (0.011)

− 0.023 (0.012)*

− 0.023 (0.013)*

Fluid intelligence

0.039 (0.012)***

0.000 (0.015)

− 0.004 (0.015)

− 0.011 (0.015)

Stability

0.007 (0.021)

− 0.019 (0.021)

− 0.038 (0.022)*

− 0.040 (0.022)*

Extraversion

0.003 (0.022)

− 0.015 (0.023)

− 0.007 (0.023)

− 0.011 (0.023)

Conscientiousness

− 0.028 (0.026)

− 0.027 (0.026)

− 0.017 (0.026)

− 0.024 (0.026)

Openness

0.008 (0.024)

0.043 (0.026)*

− 0.030 (0.026)

0.048 (0.027)*

Agreeableness

0.042 (0.026)

0.083 (0.028)***

0.083 (0.028)***

0.057 (0.028)**

Enrollment prob.

 

− 0.929(0.208)***

− 0.834 (0.209)***

− 0.738 (0.025)***

Constant

0.165 (0.081)**

0.573 (0.122)***

0.505 (0.123)***

0.441 (0.352)

Student controls

  

✓

✓

Study fixed effect

   

✓

R2

0.015

0.026

0.034

0.059

N

1767

1767

1767

1767

  1. Standard errors are in parenthesis. */**/*** denote significance at 10/5/1 percent confidence level (two-sided). Study fixed effect are enrollment year and a program dummy