Causes of girl’s pupil dropout at secondary school in Bangladesh : Review of literature and empirical analysis

Abstract

This paper provides a systematic review of the literature analysis and empirical analysis to find out the causes of girl’s dropout at the secondary schools in Bangladesh. This paper has tried to shed on some specific causes of the myriad problems of girl’s schooling in Bangladesh. The study is guided by feminist theory though the other theories have discussed considering the review of the literature. Following the systematic approach, those literature are taken from theGoogle scholar for the period of the year 2000 to recent. The findings of literature are summarized in the five main points heading: socio-cultural factor, economic factor, household factor, school factor, and political factor. Additionally, this study also provides a summary of theinterventions program and recommendations from the literature context. Moreover, this paper has also used secondary data from the World Development Indicator and BANBEIS to evaluate the causal relationship of girl dropout with GDP per capita, child marriage. Using both literature review and empirical analysis as a basis, the main result of this analysis shows that increasing income has a significant effect in reducing girl dropout and this correlation becomes higher when included other independent variables such as child marriage. The study is unique in the sense that, it only focuses on the girl’s dropout at the secondary level in Bangladesh which further follows the review of literature and secondary data analysis to provide the paper theoretical and numerical strength.