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Amutabi, Cyprian; Agoot, Martha Nyantiop – Cogent Education, 2021
Despite the consensus on the vital role of human capital investment towards a country's socio-economic development, school enrolment levels in South Sudan remain dismal with no empirical study conducted to unravel the same. Using the 2016 South Sudan Frequency Survey data, this study sought to unravel the determinants of primary school enrolment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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De Wet, Nicole; Osman, Ruksana – Perspectives in Education, 2018
In South Africa, the educational attainment of African children has been a focal point of policy and research since the end of apartheid in 1994. Individual and policy-level determinants of child development and educational outcomes have been exhaustively investigated. A less researched perspective is the role of community and household…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Characteristics, Socioeconomic Status, Family Characteristics
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Hinks, Timothy; Gruen, Carola – Social Indicators Research, 2007
The issue of what determines subjective well-being has been at the centre of a recent flurry of research in the economics field. A necessary part of this understanding is the role relative positions (economic, social, geographic) of economic agents, particularly individuals, play in life (commonly referred to in the literature as rivalry). In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Socioeconomic Status
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Cherian, V. I. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Describes a study attempting to determine the relationship between parental income and academic achievement of children in a developing area such as Transkei. Includes details of the samples, questionnaires, and results. Concludes that among children of low socioeconomic status, parental income had a positive relationship with academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Developing Nations, Educational Research