Abstract:Earlier studies have demonstrated large county differences in rates of completion in upper secondary education in Norway, and to explain this it is usual to control for individual characteristics. However, this article's main focus is the context the student is growing up in, how municipal traits can help explain countywide variations in completion. Controlling for individual and context (municipal) characteristics decreases the county differences, and this is particularly true for academically oriented progra… Show more
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