The paper estimates both the gender gap in wage and net schooling enrollment from
Vietnam household data. The results imply a reflection of gender wage gap in the
labor market in hazard of school withdrawals. Generally, males have higher incentive
to terminate their schooling to join the labor force. Males would have 43.8 percent
higher in participating the labor market and gain 18.4 percent of wage per hour higher
than females. Also, we observe 16–44.4 percent lower in probability for males to
enroll in school, especially, the school withdrawal rate accelerates at higher speed
after the age of primary school. Meanwhile, females would have an incentive to
complete junior, senior high school and 3–year college thanks to higher speed gain in
wage. Besides, family having a combination of a household head working for a state–
owned firm and his spouse working as self–employed would best facilitate their co–
residing children and grandchildren for more years of schooling. Finally, the current
education subsidy and tuition fee reduction policy do minimal to reduce the hazard of
school dropouts among beneficiaries.