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Educational inequalities and educational paths construction of 11-15 teenagers in their everyday life spaces.
This project aims at identifying the inequalities in education between the children from 11 to 15 years old (low secondary school time in France) from different backgrounds. Education can be seen as the acquisitions resulting from the interactions between the individual and his physical and social environment, including formal, informal and non formal transmission.
Returns to Education: New Challenges for Models of Human Capital Investment
way to affect skill supply is through education, as education is an essential input in the production [...] aim to improve the transitions within education, from education to the labor market, and between jobs [...] both educational options and job opportunities to study how the type of post-secondary education affects
Paterns, practices and culture in French speaking West African schools
Based on case studies from Senegal and Benin, the project aimed to deepen our understanding of the changing patterns of educational models, practices and cultures in West Africa, at a time when these are being fundamentally reconfigured. Private and religious schools are proliferating on the continent and the “national” character of educational systems is increasingly questioned in a context of numerous international interventions.
Admission Post-Bac: Match or Mis-Match?
of and demand for higher education. Since 2008, admissions to higher education programs in France are centrally [...] quality in higher education? 3. How do diversity-enhancing policies in higher education affect the academic [...] organize the placement of students to higher education programs. Because they contain rich information
RISQUES, RENDEMENTS, INEGALITE ET FINANCEMENT DANS L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR
conducted to analyse the returns-to-education in the French higher-education system, and, a fortiori, neither [...] only a few studies have addressed the returns-to-education question. Moreover, no systematic econometric [...] attention to links with the current debate on higher-education funding. Students from the same discipline and/or
The unequal impact of matching students with schools
an attempt to improve access to high-quality education. As school capacities are limited, it is not [...] these mechanisms have on equal access to quality education. The way in which they are implemented could hurt [...] understanding of the consequences in terms of educational outcomes and inequality. Our team proposes a
Influence of the local social environment on schooling decisions
Education is not only a learning process but also a decision process in the sense that, throughout the [...] the education path, individuals have to choose which school to enroll at, which track to follow, or which [...] These decisions intervene very early during the education process. At that age, the local environment is
The intergenerational transmission of economic inequality : extent, determinants and policy responses
earnings inequality, the degree educational mobility and the returns to education. Second, while most analysis [...] on three aspects of educational systems. First, we will examine how educational systems can mitigate [...] estimation of education production functions. Second we will turn to individual educational career in order
