Household resilience during climate shocks in rural Benin: The role of matrilocality on girls' school dropout

In patrilocal households, boys are more likely to be removed from school in the case of a drought to increase capital through work

difference between girl likelihood and boy is -0.008 percentage points

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
OLS linear probability regression	Marginally Supported	p < 0.1	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Patrilocality	independent	Residence
Drought	independent	Climate, Disasters
boys dropout rates in primary school	Dependent	Education, Students

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Dedehouanou, Sènakpon	2026	Ancestral matrilocality decreases the likelihood of girls dropping out of school during drought, as opposed to patriocality.	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Dedehouanou, Sènakpon	2026	Results of the matrilocality and patrilocality relationship with school dropout rates during drought will remain robust comparing long-term and short-term drought timescales	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Dedehouanou, Sènakpon	2026	Matrilocality and Patrilocality's relationship with dropout rate are significantly different from one another	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Dedehouanou, Sènakpon	2026	Matrilocality, as opposed to patrilocality, decreases the effect of climate-induced income shocks on the gender gap in school dropout, while results remain robust when considering relationships between the interaction between drought and correlates of post-marriage residence customs, household fixed effects, spatial correlation	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Dedehouanou, Sènakpon	2026	Girls will have higher dropout rates in school at the secondary level in patrilocal samples as they approach marriageable age	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author