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 The negative impact of living in Diourbel increased once more in the same time period
for this indicator as well.
 Living in a household with a household head who has no education (compared to a
household head with higher education degree) decreases the likelihood of finishing 8
years of education more in 2015 as opposed to 2005. In 2005, living in a household with
household head with no education decreased the likelihood for finishing school for 16-
18 year olds by 7.9 percentage points while in 2015 this value became 20.2 percentage
points.
 Number of children living in the household did not affect finishing 8 years of education
neither in 2015 nor in 2005.
 Low levels of household wealth is still negatively associated with finishing 8 years of
education and the negative effect is higher in 2015. In 2005 children in the poorest
quintile were 12.5 percent less likely to finish 8 years of education while in 2015 they
were 27.6 percentage points less likely.
 Ethnicities Wolof, Poular and non-Senegalese continue to have a significant negative
association with finishing 8 years of education (compared to ethnicity category “other”).
Furthermore their marginal effect is higher in 2015.
 In 2005, being a girl was negatively and significantly associated with finishing 8 years of
education, decreasing its likelihood by 1.9 percentage points. By 2015 this effect became
insignificant.
Annex Table 2 Probit regression results (reporting marginal effects)
Attendance 6-11 year olds Attendance 12-15 year
olds
Finishing 5 years of
education
(12-15 year olds)
Finishing 8 years of
education
(16-18 year olds)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
VARIABLES 2005 2015 2005 2015 2005 2015 2005 2015
location: Rural -0.059* -0.147*** -0.085** -0.101*** -0.076*** -0.058* -0.062*** -0.089**
(0.030) (0.041) (0.034) (0.037) (0.022) (0.033) (0.019) (0.037)
region: Diourbel -0.320*** -0.276*** -0.094 -0.261*** -0.107*** -0.247*** -0.028 -0.195***
(0.050) (0.065) (0.064) (0.079) (0.037) (0.049) (0.021) (0.038)
region: Fatick -0.017 -0.083 0.214*** -0.014 0.122** -0.033 0.063* -0.018
(0.062) (0.072) (0.052) (0.107) (0.047) (0.074) (0.035) (0.078)
region: Kaolack -0.057 -0.101 0.098* -0.109 0.019 -0.045 0.033 -0.005
(0.062) (0.065) (0.056) (0.084) (0.037) (0.060) (0.032) (0.062)
region: Kolda 0.143** 0.063 0.307*** 0.004 0.027 0.015 0.017 -0.031
(0.057) (0.098) (0.050) (0.092) (0.039) (0.069) (0.033) (0.064)
region: Louga -0.076 -0.120* 0.095* -0.093 -0.035 -0.120* -0.017 -0.043
(0.051) (0.065) (0.050) (0.082) (0.034) (0.062) (0.028) (0.068)
region: Matam -0.034 -0.109 0.125* -0.140* 0.023 -0.085 0.005 -0.087
(0.055) (0.078) (0.065) (0.079) (0.049) (0.055) (0.028) (0.068)