Is This Time Really Different Looking at the Relationship between Unemployment and School Enrollment

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Keng Cheng
Keyword(s):  
School Enrollment ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
AGUSTINA S. PAGLAYAN
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
World State ◽  
Redistributive Policy ◽  
Null Result ◽  
Enrollment Rates ◽  
The Relationship

Because primary education is often conceptualized as a pro-poor redistributive policy, a common argument is that democratization increases its provision. But primary education can also serve the goals of autocrats, including redistribution, promoting loyalty, nation-building, and/or industrialization. To examine the relationship between democratization and education provision empirically, I leverage new datasets covering 109 countries and 200 years. Difference-in-differences and interrupted time series estimates find that, on average, democratization had no or little impact on primary school enrollment rates. When unpacking this average null result, I find that, consistent with median voter theories, democratization can lead to an expansion of primary schooling, but the key condition under which it does—when a majority lacked access to primary schooling before democratization—rarely holds. Around the world, state-controlled primary schooling emerged a century before democratization, and in three-fourths of countries that democratized, a majority already had access to primary education before democratization.

scholarly journals Staffing Up and Dropping Out

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Fetler
Keyword(s):  
School Size ◽  
Dropout Rate ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Dropout Rates ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Teacher Qualifications ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
Employment Standards ◽  
Hiring Policies ◽  
The Relationship

Growing public school enrollment and the need to maintain or improve service to students has increased the demand for teachers, perhaps more rapidly than existing sources can accommodate. While some schools recruit well qualified teachers by offering higher salaries or better working conditions, others may satisfy their need for staff by relaxing hiring standards or assigning novice teachers to difficult classrooms. Schools' hiring policies have consequences for student success. Dropout rates tend to be higher where faculties include a greater percentage of minimally educated teachers or teachers with little experience. The relationship between dropout rate and teacher qualifications is independent of student poverty, school size, and location. A proposed strategy to reduce dropout rates is to encourage higher preparation and employment standards, and to provide appropriate classroom assignments, mentoring, and support for new teachers.

Rational Choice Models of Crimes by Youth

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Llad Phillips ◽  
Harold L. Votey
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Labor Market Activity

This article presents research findings from three analyses of criminal activity among youth. The data set used in all three is the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Americans, a data set that is particularly appropriate for this type of analysis. The work examined the relationship between criminal behavior and family and moral influences; the impact of legitimate labor market activity on participation in crime; and the effect of school enrollment on criminal activity. The findings confirm the hypothesis that black and white differences in criminal participation partially reflect differences in economic opportunity.

Racial Family Configurations and Inequalities in Private School Enrollment Among Adopted Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110182
Author(s):  
Kevin J. A. Thomas ◽  
Ashley Larsen Gibby
Keyword(s):  
Parental Investment ◽  
Private School ◽  
Social Disadvantage ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
The Relationship

This study uses data from the American Community Survey to examine the relationship between race, family configurations, and inequalities in private school enrollment among adoptees. We find that private school enrollment is higher in transracial than in same-race families. This disparity is driven by the outcomes of adoptees in transracial families with zero rather than one same-race parent. Among adoptees themselves, there are diverging patterns of racial stratification in same-race and transracial families. White adoptees in same-race families are more likely to be enrolled in private school than Black, Asian, or Hispanic adoptees in such families. However, among adoptees in transracial families, the highest odds of private school enrollment are found among Asians. Finally, we argue that our findings have important implications for understanding how kinship cues, compensation, and social disadvantage shape parental investment in adopted children.

scholarly journals Neighbourhood deprivation and obesity among 5656 pre-school children—findings from mandatory school enrollment examinations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thuy Ha Nguyen ◽  
Simon Götz ◽  
Katharina Kreffter ◽  
Stefanie Lisak-Wahl ◽  
Nico Dragano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Education ◽  
Child Obesity ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Neighbourhood Deprivation ◽  
Deprived Neighbourhoods ◽  
High Deprivation ◽  
Spatial Degree ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe risk of child obesity is strongly related to socioeconomic factors such as individual socioeconomic position (SEP) and neighbourhood deprivation. The present study analyses whether the relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and child obesity differs by child’s individual SEP. Data from 5656 children (5–7 years) from the mandatory school enrollment examinations of the pre-school cohorts 2017/2018 in Düsseldorf were analysed. Obesity was determined by the age- and gender-specific body mass index (BMI); neighbourhood deprivation by using the socio-spatial degree of deprivation of the children’s residential addresses; and individual SEP by the level of parental education. Using Poisson regression, we estimated prevalence ratios (PR with 95% confidence interval (CI)) of child obesity by neighbourhood deprivation and parental education. Interactions between neighbourhood deprivation and parental education were tested. The prevalence of child obesity increases with the degree of neighbourhood deprivation. Compared to children living in low deprivation neighbourhoods, the proportion of obese children was twice as high in high deprivation neighbourhoods (PR=2.02; CI=1.46–2.78). Likewise, children from families with medium and low education have twice the risk for obesity compared to children with high parental education (PR=2.05; CI=1.46–2.78). The relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and child obesity was significantly moderated by parental education; it was stronger for higher parental education than for medium and low parental education (p<.001).Conclusion: Our findings suggest that children from deprived neighbourhoods and families with lower education have a higher risk for child obesity. The identification of particularly deprived neighbourhoods with structural interventions in combination with the strengthening of parental health literacy seems reasonable. What is Known:• Studies show that children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods are more frequently obese. What is New:• The relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and child obesity is significantly moderated by parental education. It is stronger for children with higher parental education than for children with medium and low parental education.

School Desegregation in Large Cities: A Critique of the Coleman "White Flight" Thesis

1976 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pettigrew ◽  
Robert Green
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Science ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
White Flight ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
White School ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, Thomas Pettigrew and Robert Green closely examine sociologist James S. Coleman's research and public statements on the relationship between school desegregation and white school enrollment. Describing their own study and other studies whose findings diverge from Coleman's, they contend that Coleman's research is methodologically and conceptually faulty and that it provides no basis for his highly publicized conclusion that urban school desegregation leads to massive"white flight." Rather, they argue, his and others' research tends to support metropolitan solutions to school segregation. The authors criticize Coleman for failing to distinguish between his scientific findings and his personal beliefs and go on to comment more generally on the delicate relationship between social science and the mass media.

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