- Abstract:
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This study examined prospective associations between poverty, gender, and school dropout in a large community sample of South African adolescents (baseline: n = 3515, follow-up: n = 3401, 57% female, age range at baseline: 10–17 years, mean age at baseline = 13.45). School dropout was defined as being enrolled in school at baseline assessment but no longer enrolled in school at follow-up assessment. Poverty was measured at baseline assessment using an index of access to the eight highest soci...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted manuscript
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 195-206
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1745-0136
- ISSN:
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1745-0128
- Pubs id:
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pubs:687490
- URN:
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uri:fed6ba46-1551-4fd6-ba0d-9a1888d299c0
- UUID:
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uuid:fed6ba46-1551-4fd6-ba0d-9a1888d299c0
- Local pid:
- pubs:687490
- Paper number:
- 3
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- Copyright holder:
- © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis at: 10.1080/17450128.2017.1308613
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Poverty moderates the association between gender and school dropout in South African adolescents
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Economic and Social Research Council
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South African National Research Foundation
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Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
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