This article provides a comprehensive review of the socio-economic literature on the student determinants of tertiary education dropout, in order to help research scholars better understand this phenomenon. Empirical findings are framed within a theoretical model that analyzes higher education choices and prospective outcomes in a dynamic setting, where informative issues (emphasized by the economic literature) and relational ones (emphasized by the sociological literature) are crucial to predicting students' achievements. Our review suggests that student university persistence/attrition depends on a mix of individual, institutional, and economic factors, the effects of which on the dropout decision are mediated by a student's ability to integrate into the academic system. Some factors are given, and their effects are valuable only in a descriptive perspective. Others, instead, can be manipulated by the decisionmakers in the tertiary education system and, as such, are more interesting from the policymaker's viewpoint. In particular, all interventions aimed at fulfilling the initial informational gap of students and at improving their integration into academic and social life are key to study success.

本文对高等教育辍学学生决定因素的社会经济文献进行了全面回顾，以帮助研究学者更好地理解这一现象。实证研究结果被构建在一个理论模型中，该模型在动态环境中分析高等教育选择和预期结果，其中信息问题（由经济文献强调）和相关问题（由社会学文献强调）对于预测学生的成绩至关重要。我们的审查表明，学生在大学的坚持/流失取决于个人、机构和经济因素的混合，这些因素对辍学决定的影响是由学生融入学术系统的能力所调节的。给出了一些因素，并且它们的效果仅在描述性方面才有价值。相反，其他人可以由高等教育系统的决策者操纵，因此从决策者的角度来看更有趣。特别是，所有旨在弥补学生最初的信息差距并改善他们融入学术和社会生活的干预措施是学习成功的关键。