The impact of factors on trajectories that lead to non-completion of high school and lack of post-secondary education among those with high reading competencies at age 15 : Incidence de certains facteurs sur les cheminements menant au décrochage du secondaire et à l'absence d'études postsecondaires chez les personnes hautement compétentes en lecture à l'âge de 15 ans

The importance of the research is that it focuses squarely on one of the atypical pathways, namely initial high academic performance on reading achievement followed by subsequent non-completion of high school or completion of high school but without participation in PSE. [...] The same holds true for the effect of parental social capital in the form of knowing their children’s friends, which reduce the odds of dropping out and increase the likelihood of participating in PSE (Furstenberg and Hughes 1995). [...] Figure 14 shows the typical relationships: the higher the educational pathway, the more likely it is that the home is equipped with internet facilities and that the mother has some PSE; in contrast, the likelihood of parental income being in the bottom quintile decreases with better educational pathways. [...] The main reason for this is that the effects of academic effort and academic performance are controlled in this analysis and in these ways the analysis controls for some of the selection effects (academically better-performing students are generally more likely to participate in extracurricular activities). [...] In contrast to the findings for non-completion of high school, none of the other socio-demographic factors are significantly related to the decision to curtail one’s education at a high school completion level rather than to pursue non-university PSE.