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Kate Alexander; Stephen Evans; Tony Wilson – Learning and Work Institute, 2022
One in seven people of working age in England live in social housing. Partly because of how the limited supply of social housing is allocated, tenants are more diverse than the population as a whole and more likely to live in relative poverty. Strategies to tackle the big workforce, growth, cost of living and inequality challenges the country…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Housing, Poverty, Labor Force Development
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Jerrim, John; Sims, Sam – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
Proponents argue that grammar schools enhance social mobility by allowing high-attaining pupils to attend elite schools, no matter what their social background. However, disadvantaged pupils cannot benefit from grammar schools unless they gain access to them. In this article, we use rich cohort data to investigate the strength of, and reasons for,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Secondary Education, Differences
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Cara L. Kelly; Gerilyn Slicker; Jason T. Hustedt – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Supportive early relationships are critical to young children's development. Previous research has focused primarily on aspects of specific parenting practices that impact infants' and toddlers' development. However, additional research is needed for a more nuanced understanding of the relationships among family experiences, parenting behaviors,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers
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Farnaz Rahmani; Elnaz Asghari; Reza Naghdi Sadeh; Mina Hosseinzadeh; Leila Gholizadeh – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Teachers can face demanding and stressful working conditions. Classroom environments in elementary schools are dynamic and challenging, which can be mentally and emotionally exhausting for teachers. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychological distress and identify associated factors among elementary school teachers.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Emotional Disturbances, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Megan Lucas; Jenna Julius – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2024
Since 2021, unprecedented increases in energy costs, rapid increases in food costs and substantial increases in the cost of housing via higher rent/mortgage costs have driven a dramatic rise in the cost of living across England. Despite inflation having fallen from its peak in winter 2022, costs remain high compared to incomes and cost pressures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Change, Cost Indexes, Family Income
Kristen D. Foster – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study sought to explore the lived experience of parents concerning school voucher programs and determine whether parental knowledge of funding discrepancies between income-eligible voucher programs and traditional public schools drives parents' advocacy for vouchers. This research is rooted in the interest convergence theory to explore and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Family Income, Educational Vouchers, Parent Attitudes
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Nikhil Ahuja; Asos Mahmood; Satish Kedia; Patrick J. Dillon – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Recently, multiple health organizations and advocacy groups have pushed for giving an R-rating for movies depicting tobacco imagery. This study examined several predictors of U.S. adults' opinion toward an R-rating policy for movies depicting cigarette smoking. We used data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (2020 cycle), for a…
Descriptors: Smoking, Censorship, Health Behavior, Public Health
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Sonia Torres Rodriguez; Christina Stacy; Mary Bogle; Sandra Espada-Santos; Rene Marty; Sara Santiago Estrada; Jesus Marrero – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: The compounding crises of Hurricane Maria, the 2020 earthquakes, the COVID-19 pandemic, Puerto Rico's territorial status, and the ongoing economic recession, have poignantly disrupted an already-stressed education system in Puerto Rico; including through the closing public schools due to compromised infrastructure after climate…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Poverty, Family (Sociological Unit), Partnerships in Education
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Weiger, C. V.; Alexander, T. N.; Moran, M. B. – Health Education Research, 2020
Smoking education and prevention campaigns have had marked success in reducing rates of tobacco use among adolescents, however, disparities in use continue to exist. It is critical to assess if adolescents at risk for tobacco use are being exposed to antitobacco campaigns. We used data from Wave 2 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Education, Health Programs, Prevention
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Davydov, Youri; Greselin, Francesca – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
The observed increase in economic inequality, where the major concern is relative to the huge growth of the highest incomes, motivates to revisit classical measures of inequality and to offer new ways to synthesize the variability of the entire income distribution. The idea is to provide policy makers a way to contrast the economic position of the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Poverty, Advantaged, Measurement Techniques
Sallie Mae Bank, 2023
For 16 years, Sallie Mae has surveyed college students and parents of undergraduate students about their attitudes toward higher education and how they're paying for it. This year's report explores education funding sources--from family income and savings to scholarships, grants, and borrowed funds--and evaluates trends in payment strategies over…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Parents, Undergraduate Students, Student Financial Aid
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Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Karoly, Lynn A.; Dearing, Eric – Educational Researcher, 2023
We study a decade of achievement gaps for fifth-, eighth-, and 10th-grade students in Norway using administrative population data. Norway is a wealthy and egalitarian country with a homogeneous educational system, yet achievement gaps between students at the 90th and 10th percentiles of parental income and between students whose parents have at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Grade 5, Grade 8
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; Toivanen, Otto – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income and off-spring probability of inventing is greatly…
Descriptors: Correlation, Low Income, Social Differences, Social Mobility
Bernard C. Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While higher education has been known as the great equalizer, the racial wealth gap of college graduates is overlooked: Among college-educated households (2013) the median net worth was $359,928 for white households; $250,637 for Asian households; $49,606 for Hispanic households; and $32,780 households for Black households. Although MSIs…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Race, Educational Attainment, Racial Differences
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Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo; Montes-Iturrizaga, Iván; Castro-Paniagua, William – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Traditionally secondary studies on achievement on Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) tests point to the significant impact of socioeconomic status and cultural backgrounds of families as well as the role of parental involvement, which in some cases has had a negative impact on achievement. For this article, a model of…
Descriptors: Family Income, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, High Achievement
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