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Relative Risk Aversion and Social Reproduction in Intergenerational Educational Attainment: Application of a Dynamic Discrete Choice Mode
Get PDFThe theory of Relative Risk Aversion (RRA) claims that educational decision-making is ultimately motivated by the individual’s desire to avoid downward social class mobility, and that this desire is stronger than the desire to pursue upward mobility. This paper implements a dynamic programming model which tests the central behavioral assumption in the RRA theory stating that (1) individuals are forward-looking when choosing education and (2) that the RRA mechanism comprises an important component in the educational decision-making process. Using data from the Danish Youth Longitudinal Study, we find strong evidence of RRA in educational decision-making over and above the effect of traditional social background variables.
Higher Education Funding Issues: U.S. / UK Comparison
Get PDFThe paper compares and contrasts higher education funding sources and systems in the U.S. and the UK. The issues raised in the paper pertain to the major challenge of academia: finding financial support in times of limited resources and enhanced competition. The issues discussed throughout the paper are: funding and quality assessment of universities; funding and equity of access to post-secondary education; marketization and privatization of universities; funding, autonomy and accountability of higher education institutions.Funding higher education; scarce resources; marketization and privatization of higher education; quality assessment; equity of access to higher education; university autonomy and accountability.
The making of political ambition : a study of top activists in Italian party youth organizations
Get PDFDefence date: 13 June 1996Examining Board: Prof. Stefano Bartolini (EUI) ; Prof. Jean Blondel (EUI, supervisor) ; Prof. Geraint Parry (University of Manchester) ; Prof. Antonio Schizzerotto (Università di Trento) ; Prof. Yossi Shavit (EUI, co-supervisor)First made available online: 26 September 201
The colours of my classroom : a study into the effects of the ethnic composition of classrooms on the achievement of pupils from different ethnic backgrounds
No full textDefence date: 19 July 1999Examining board: Prof. Yossi Shavit, University of Tel Aviv, Supervisor ; Prof. Jaap Dronkers, University of Amsterdam, Co-supervisor ; Prof. Richard Breen, European University Institute ; Prof. Paul Tesser, Social and Cultural Planning OfficePDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201
The gender division of welfare : the British and German welfare states compared
No full textDefence date: 7 March 1996Examining board: Prof. Colin Crouch, European University Institute, supervisor ; Prof. Adrienne Héritier, European University Institute ; Prof. Jane Lewis, All Souls College, Oxford ; Prof. Ilona Ostner, Georg-August-Universität Götting ; Prof. Yossi Shavit, European University InstitutePDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201
Segregation, Tracking, and the Educational Attainment of Minorities: Arabs and Oriental Jews in Israel
No full textAnother Look at Persistent Inequality in Israeli Education
Get PDFThis is a study of change in inequality of educational opportunity in Israel. Recent studies in Israel and elsewhere have found declining inequality of opportunity at the primary and secondary levels of education coupled with more persistent inequality at higher levels. However, these studies ignore the fact that the relative value of qualifications change as education expands over time. Many scholars agree that that the value of qualifications lies in their relative position in the distribution of education. And yet, in empirical research education is typically represented in absolute rather than relative terms. I analyze all available Israeli mobility data for the cohorts born between1951-1981 and estimate models of both absolute and relative education, as well as of education recoded into its earning value. When education is defined in absolute terms, I find the familiar decline in the effects of parents’ education. When it is measured in terms of its earning value or in relative terms, the results show significant increases in the effect of parents’ education on education. I also study change in the effects of ethnicity and of gender.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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