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"A fish out of water?" : the therapeutic narratives of class change
Franceschelli, Michela; Evans, Karen; Schoon, Ingrid - 2016
Young people from working class backgrounds remained mostly excluded from the widening educational participation which characterised postwar Britain. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews which were part of a wider study about "Social Participation and Identity" (2008–2009), this article...
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The middle muddle : conceptualizing and measuring the global middle class
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
Interest in the emergence of a global middle class has resulted in a number of attempts to identify and enumerate who belongs to it . Current research provides wildly different estimates about the size and evolution of the global middle class because of a lack of consensus on appropriate...
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Ten years in Tamil Nadu: exploring labour, migration and debt from longitudinal household surveys in South India
Di Santolo, Mary; Guérin, Isabelle; Michiels, Sébastien; … - 2024
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Maternal mortality, religion and the enrolment of girls and boys : is there a link?
Cooray, Arusha; Klasen, Stephan - 2014
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Boy-girl differences in parental time investments : evidence from three countries
Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - 2013
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Imagine your Life at 25 : Gender Conformity and Later-Life Outcomes
Ayyar, Sreevidya; Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; O'Dea, Cormac - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender … worked. Education, occupation and family formation mediate half of this decline. Holding skills constant, girls who conform … less to gender norms live in regions with higher female employment and university attendance, highlighting the role of the …
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"Inequality is the root of social evil," or maybe not? : two stories about inequality and public policy
Corak, Miles - 2017
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...
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On measuring social tensions : with applications to Brazil
Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Kakwani, Nanak - 2017
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