Socio‐economic status and educational attainment: A multi‐dimensional and multi‐level study

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Multi Level

Education and Its Discontents: Investigating Barriers to Schooling among De-notified and Nomadic Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalpana Kannabiran ◽  
Sujit Kumar Mishra ◽  
Soumya Vinayan ◽  
K. Jafar
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Nomadic Communities

This article is based on a study carried out between 2013–2015 in nine states in Central, Western and Southern India on socio-economic status and educational attainment among the de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities. The primary objective of the study covering 76 communities and 13,020 households was to track the barriers to educational attainment and the specific linkages between socio-economic status and education among these communities.

scholarly journals Language Attitudes of the Gaddang Speakers towards Gaddang, Ilocano, Tagalog and English

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Zayda S. Asuncion ◽  
Marilu Rañosa-Madrunio, Ph.D.
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
National Language ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Positive Attitudes

<p><em>Language attitudes have been the focus of interest in sociolinguistics for the past decades. In the Philippines, there is a dearth of literature on sociolinguistic studies that focus on indigenous languages and their speakers. To contribute to the literature, this study endeavoured to investigate the attitudes of Gaddang speakers in the northern part of the country towards Gaddang, their native language; Ilocano, the lingua franca of the province; Tagalog/Filipino, the national language; and English, one of the official languages. It also explored possible differences in the language attitudes of the Gaddangs in terms of geographical location, age, gender, socio-economic status, and educational attainment. Using survey questionnaire and semi-structured interview, the study involved 568 respondents. Results revealed that Gaddang speakers manifest positive attitudes towards Tagalog, Gaddang, Ilocano, and English respectively. The study also yielded significant differences in their attitudes with respect to geographical location, age, socio-economic status, and educational attainment except gender. The results have significant implications on the maintenance or gradual loss of their native language.</em></p>

scholarly journals An Inter-Generational Effect of Socio-Economic Status on Education Attainment in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4(J)) ◽  
pp. 252-261
Author(s):  
Thendo M. Ratshivhanda ◽  
Sevias Guvuriro
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
South African ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
National Level ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Education Attainment ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The Relationship

Higher socio-economic status (SES) empowers an individual to have more access to a variety of materials relevant to achievements in life than would otherwise be possible. In theory, a child’s educational attainment can be influenced by hereditary and ecological variables; parents’ achievements are prompting children to achieve, or a deliberate investment that parents undertake in their children’s welfare, all suggestive of inter-generational effect in the process. A parent’s SES may therefore play a significant role in the child’s achievements. This paper attempts to determine the relationship between a parent’s SES and a child’s educational attainment and uses South African data collected at the national level. Employing descriptive statistics and OLS regressions, an inter-generational effect of parental SES positively influencing a child’s educational attainment is established. The finding supports policies promoting education as a fundamental poverty and inequality fighting mechanism in South Africa. 

scholarly journals Educational attainment, smoking initiation and lifetime nicotine dependence among male Vietnam-era twins

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1287-1297 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. McCaffery ◽  
G. D. Papandonatos ◽  
M. J. Lyons ◽  
K. C. Koenen ◽  
M. T. Tsuang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Nicotine Dependence ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Smoking Initiation ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Gene Environment Interaction ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
Vietnam Era

BackgroundSmoking initiation and persistence are clearly associated with factors commonly thought to be environmental in origin, including socio-economic status. However, twin models that incorporate gene–environment correlation and gene×environment interaction have not been applied to elucidate the genetic or environmental role that socio-economic status plays in smoking initiation and nicotine dependence.MethodTwin structural equation modelling was used to examine gene–environment correlation and gene×environment interaction of one index of socio-economic status, educational attainment, with smoking initiation and nicotine dependence among 5119 monozygotic and 4295 dizygotic male–male Vietnam-era twins from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry, a national registry of twin pairs who served in the military during the Vietnam era.ResultsEducational attainment correlated significantly with smoking initiation (r=−0.27, p<0.001). Additive genetic (p=0.011), shared environment (p=0.002) and unique environment (p=0.027) components contributed to the correlation between educational attainment and smoking initiation. Educational attainment also significantly moderated the variance in smoking initiation (p<0.001), suggestive of gene×environment interaction, although the interaction with the additive genetic, shared environmental and unique environmental components could not be resolved due to multicollinearity. In contrast, educational attainment neither correlated with nor moderated nicotine dependence, once smokers had initiated.ConclusionsOur study suggests that educational attainment is associated with smoking initiation, in part due to gene–environment correlation and gene×environment interaction. However, once smoking initiation is taken into account, there are no effects – be they gene–environment correlation or gene×environmental interaction – of educational attainment on nicotine dependence.

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