This work provides information on the state of educational policies in Greece dealing with issues of social inequalities and focusing on the increasing phenomenon of school drop out in the country. Educational inequality, as this is expressed in terms of school dropout, seems to persist in Greek ...
There are also strong connections between levels of social inequality and educational attainment in this "global city". This paper seeks to contribute to the important body of work on equality studies and attainment research by examining two inter-connected aspects of educational inequality in higher ...
This paper aims to investigate whether online private supplementary education, also known as shadow education, can alleviate educational inequality and what types of mechanisms can help alleviate it. We investigate this using an online learning platform dataset (3,603 anonymous students from China) with...
Cohort changes in educational inequality This paper examines the implications of using birth cohorts to examine changes in educational attainments over time. It argues that birth cohorts underesti... B Graetz - 《Social Science Research》 被引量: 51发表: 1987年 Gender, Geography and Generations: ...
Looking at other dimensions of educational inequality, the COVID-19 school closures did not increase learning-time gaps by parental education, but they affected boys more than girls. While children with a university-educated parent spent significantly more time learning for school than those without ...
A puzzle in comparative health inequality research is the finding that egalitarian welfare states do not necessarily demonstrate narrow health inequalities. This paper interrogates into this puzzle by moving beyond welfare regimes to examine how welfare spending affect inequalities in self-rated across Eur...
In other words, the question of whether and to what extent socioeconomic origin influences participation in such remedial measures—and thus may reflect inequality—has remained largely unresolved. The present study addressed this lack of research by providing an initial examination of the empirical ...
the paper were presented in several scientific events, including a seminar in Antwerp (Belgium) at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy (May 2014), a seminar in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (February 2015), a presentation in San Diego (...
Objective: Drawing on a comparative analysis from central and northern regions of Uganda, we identified the factors that are associated with educational inequality and quality of life in secondary schools in both regions.Methods: Our sample comprised of 358 students and 72 key informants, primary da...
Regionally, the Southern, North-Eastern, and Eastern regions experienced upward mobility in terms of decline in inequality of opportunity, whereas the Central region experienced downward mobility. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 sets the context by providing background ...