To examine the role of inequality in academic achievement, we analyse a cross-national dataset including data from three cycles from 2012 to 2018 from the PISA, an international assessment of 15-year-old students’ math, reading, and science performance.
This suggests that the participants perceive more equality than what exists in society. This misperception is even present in a more granular context. Jäger et al. (2022) demonstrate that workers misperceive their rank within their firm’s pay distribution: beliefs are compressed around the 50th...
And the same pattern exists in other market-based nations. But here’s what frustrates me. When I share this data with my left-leaning friends, they seem to have some sort of mental block that prevents them from reaching the obvious conclusion. A few of them will pivot, acknowledge that...
Income inequality is not a new phenomenon, and it exists in societies on every stage of socio-economic development. However, income inequalities are a serious challenge for the socio-economic coherency. The increase in income inequality is also a threat to sustainable development (Leszczyńska,2015...
However, recent reports using data on OECD countries from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) suggest this relation no longer exists. We investigated whether the shift in relative poverty from elderly people (with high death rates) to young families (low death rates) may have affected the ...
1. The ROAD of Advantage and Disadvantage: The Four Fundamental Inequalities in Social Hierarchy 2. The Sense of Advantage and Disadvantage 3. Agency and Communion as Fundamental Human Orientations 4. The Agentic–Communal Model of Advantage and Disadvantage 5. Prior Theory Supportive of the Model...
Unequal access to incomes and opportunities does more than create unjust, unhealthy, and unhappy societies: it actually kills people. Over the past two years, people have died when they contracted an infectious disease because they did not get vaccines in time, even though those vaccines could ...
However, in reality there exists a lot of unpredictability in the education system across the United States, which results in students being nurtured in dissimilar environments with vast discrepancies in the quality and cost of their schooling (Kozol 11). For instance, some of the schools in New...
Uncovering how inequality emerges from human interaction is imperative for just societies. Here we show that the way social groups interact in face-to-face situations can enable the emergence of disparities in the visibility of social groups. These disparities translate into members of specific social...
First, some cross-country variation exists in terms of population coverage of health insurance, which ranges from 83% in Cyprus to full coverage in half of the countries analysed. Services covered under the basic health insurance usually include doctor visits, medical examinations and hospital care ...