Regional Students’ Vulnerability to Climate in Tunisia: A Spatial Analysis

Abstract

Weather conditions have not been considered up to date as a factor that contributes to drop out of school in Tunisia. The latter is mainly attributed to poverty, socioeconomic status of students and to a lack of educational infrastructure. This paper is an attempt to introduce geography in explaining dropout in Tunisia. We apply spatial econometric models to show that there is a high degree of spatial clustering in dropout of school. We conclude that students in the north-west region of Tunisia are those who are the most vulnerable to weather conditions and to climate change.