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Long-term trends in educational inequalities in alcohol-attributable mortality, and their impact on trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundPrevious studies on socio-economic inequalities in mortality have documented a substantial contribution of alcohol-attributable mortality (AAM) to these inequalities.
Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Wanda M. J. Van Hemelrijck, Nicolás Zengarini, Alison Sizer, Anton E. Kunst, Pekka Martikainen, Pekka Martikainen, Fanny Janssen, Fanny Janssen   +9 more
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Educational inequalities in employment of Finns aged 60-68 in 2006-2018. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
The aim of this study was to explore the employment of 60-68-year-old men and women by educational level over the period 2006-2018 and the magnitude of educational inequalities in employment. We used individual-level register data from Statistics Finland
Anu Polvinen, Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Satu Nivalainen, Susan Kuivalainen   +3 more
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Educational inequalities in metabolic syndrome prevalence, timing, and duration amongst adults over the life course: a microsimulation analysis based on the lifelines cohort study [PDF]

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023
Background Educational inequalities in metabolic syndrome (MetS) are a growing public health concern. Intervening on modifiable factors may help reduce these inequalities, but there is a need for evidence on the long-term impact of intervening on these ...
Liza A. Hoveling, Alexander Lepe, Michael Boissonneault, Joop A. A. de Beer, Nynke Smidt, Marlou L. A. de Kroon, Aart C. Liefbroer   +6 more
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Understanding educational inequalities in sports participation through structurally based resources and individual agency – a sequential mediation analysis [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health
Educational inequalities in sports participation remain a public health issue in the Netherlands. Combining structurally based resources from Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of capital with Amartya Sen’s conceptualization of individual agency may offer new ...
Andrea L. Mudd, Michèlle Bal, Frank J. van Lenthe, Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis   +3 more
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Changes in educational inequalities in knee and hip osteoarthritis surgery and non-surgery specialist care visits over time in Sweden [PDF]

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
Objective: To examine changes in prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in knee and hip OA outcomes, in more specific surgery and non-surgery specialist care visits, from 2001 to 2011 in Sweden and to what extent sociodemographic factors can explain ...
Maria Lindéus, George Peat, Martin Englund, Ali Kiadaliri   +3 more
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Widening Educational Inequalities in Physical Health Due to the Obesity Trend?—A Mediation Analysis Using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study [PDF]

International Journal of Public Health
Objectives:This study examined the contribution of obesity to the development of educational inequalities in physical health.Methods:We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 2002–2020.
Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller, Batoul Safieddine, Juliane Tetzlaff, Siegfried Geyer   +4 more
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Does Schooling Affect Socioeconomic Inequalities in Educational Attainment? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany

Sociological Science, 2023
Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment.
Michael Grätz
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Educational Inequality

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link between
Blanden, Jo, Doepke, Matthias, Stuhler, Jan   +2 more
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PIONEERED: Elaborating the link between social and educational policies for tackling educational inequalities in Europe

sozialpolitik.ch, 2022
Although a number of policies tackling educational inequalities have been introduced in recent decades in Europe, educational inequalities exist to a varying extent both in different sub- and supranational contexts.
Andreas Hadjar, Aigul Alieva, Solvejg Jobst, Jan Skrobanek, Alyssa Grecu, Irina Gewinner, Frederick de Moll, Auli Toom   +7 more
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Educational Inequality [PDF]

LABOUR, 2001
Abstract. This paper develops a theoretical model of the inequality in wages and salaries associated with differences in years of schooling (educational inequality, for short). Our model assumes that in the long run individual decisions to become more educated equalize the lifetime earnings of more educated workers and comparable less educated workers.
Yoshiaki Azuma, Herschel I. Grossman
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