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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Does income inequality really influence individual mortality? [PDF]

open access: yes
There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have supported the original hypothesis about adverse effects, while others have shown no effects.
Øystein Kravdal
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Urban and Rural Dimensions of Income Inequality in Vietnam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study analyzes urban and rural inequalities in Vietnam by applying two techniques of inequality decomposition by population groups and income sources based on two data sets from the nationwide household surveys in 2002 and 2004.
Cao, Thi Cam Van   +7 more
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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural non-farm income and inequality in Nigeria: [PDF]

open access: yes
"This paper investigates the contribution of rural non-farm income to income inequality by examining the contribution of specific income sources (farm income from irrigated agriculture, farm income from rainfed agriculture and non-farm income) to income ...
Omilola, Babatunde
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Sources of income inequality in rural Pakistan : a decomposition analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
Using panel data from a three-year study of 727 households, the authors identify the sources of income inequality in rural Pakistan. First, theydecompose total rural income among five sources: agricultural, livestock, rental, nonfarm, and transfer income.
Adams, Richard H. Jr., Alderman, Harold
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Relational and feminist pedagogic approaches for developing engagement and inclusion of girls at risk of exclusion in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age-specific Income Inequality and Life Expectancy: New Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
Objectives -- The study has two primary goals. First, to test the hypothesis that higher levels of income inequality are related to lower levels of population health with updated data from around year 2000.
Steven G. Prus, Robert L. Brown
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The disturbing 'rise' of global income inequality [PDF]

open access: yes
We use aggregate GDP data and within-country income shares for the period 1970-1998 to assign a level of income to each person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income.
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
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