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Table 8 Baseline estimation results future dropout in the first year for level 3–4 vocational programs

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

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Crystallized intelligence

− 0.008 (0.011)

− 0.034 (0.024)

− 0.045 (0.023)*

− 0.033 (0.023)

Fluid intelligence

− 0.002 (0.011)

− 0.025 (0.022)

− 0.017 (0.021)

− 0.007 (0.022)

Stability

0.029 (0.018)

0.039 (0.020)**

0.024 (0.020)

0.028 (0.020)

Extraversion

0.014 (0.019)

− 0.016 (0.032)

− 0.013 (0.031)

0.001 (0.031)

Conscientiousness

− 0.040 (0.023)*

− 0.048 (0.024)**

− 0.049 (0.024)**

− 0.049 (0.024)**

Openness

0.068 (0.024)***

0.085 (0.028)***

0.068 (0.027)**

0.047 (0.029)*

Agreeableness

− 0.003 (0.027)

0.001 (0.027)

0.000 (0.027)

0.005 (0.027)

Enrollment prob.

 

− 0.555 (0.445)

− 0.579 (0.439)

− 0.439 (0.436)

Constant

0.080 (0.090)

0.471 (0.327)

0.479 (0.322)

0.445 (0.331)

Student controls

  

✓

✓

Study fixed effect

   

✓

R2

0.007

0.008

0.037

0.076

N

2373

2373

2373

2373

  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