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Religion and educational mobility in Africa. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 AbstractThe African people and leaders1,2 have long seen education as a driving force of development and liberation, a view shared by international institutions3,4, as schooling has large economic and non-economic returns, particularly in low-income settings5.
Alesina A +3 more
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Gendered intergenerational educational mobility patterns converge in the cohort sequence: evidence from Switzerland using administrative data [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 In many societies, educational attainment determines social inequality in terms of life chances, and at the same time there is a strong link between social origin and educational success.
Richard Nennstiel, Rolf Becker
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Intergenerational educational mobility in Bangladesh. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 IntroductionSocial mobility is considered as an important indicator of the economic development of a country. However, it varies widely across geographical regions and social groups in developing countries like Bangladesh.
Mohammed Nazmul Huq +3 more
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Parental Education Attainment and Educational Upward Mobility; Role of Race and Gender
Behavioral Sciences, 2018 Background. The Minorities’ Diminished Return theory suggests that education attainment and other socioeconomic resources have smaller effects on the health and well-being of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities compared to ...
Shervin Assari
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Intergenerational educational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Development Sustainability, 2023 Research on social mobility in developing countries has been hampered by the coresidency criterion applied to most surveys. However, a recent study showed that for educational mobility, the intergenerational correlation (IGC) suffers from significantly ...
Seife Dendir
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Revija za Sociologiju, 2021 Research of contemporary societies emphasises the importance of global economic circumstances, political uncertainties and social inequalities for young people’s visions of their personal future.
Nada Polovina +2 more
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Application of planning standards for land uses of schools and educational facilities to reduce educational mobility as means to reduce traffic congestion in Cairo [PDF]
MSA Engineering Journal, 2023 Greater Cairo and other capitals of the Egyptian governorates and major cities suffer from traffic congestion, despite the tangible efforts of the state in opening new road axes, expanding and developing the existing road network.
Ahmed Emam Hammad
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole population. Based on the results, we conclude that part of the US-Europe difference, as well as the European North-South difference in labour mobility,
Stephen Machin +2 more
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Sociological Science, 2021 I evaluate Andrade and Thomsen (A&T)'s (2018) study, which concludes that Denmark is significantly more educationally mobile than the United States. I make three observations.
Kristian Bernt Karlson
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Mobile Sociologies of Education [PDF]
European Educational Research Journal, 2014 This special issue of the European Educational Research Journal collects articles from the sessions organised by the newly launched sociologies of education network (network 28) of the European Education Research Association (EERA) at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) held in 2012.
Landri P, Neumann E
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