H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

DEMOquality · Differential demographic behaviour by education and its links with the reproduction of educational inequalities in Europe

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-01-02 → 2022-01-01
Финансиране от ЕС: 184 708 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Разликите в демографското поведение според нивото на образование, като например кога хората решават да имат деца, се анализират в зависимост от държавата. Това помага да се разбере как социалното неравенство влияе върху бъдещия успех на децата и устойчивостта на обществото.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Differential demographic behaviour by education and its links with the reproduction of educational inequalities in Europe

The project focuses on the differences across countries in demographic behaviour by level of education. In analysing country differences, the project emphasizes the role of contextual factors, including educational inequalities (e.g., proportion of people with tertiary education, school drop-out rates), and how these are linked to demographic behaviour. It is argued that family policies, addressing the demographic behaviour of a society, cannot be seen as a separated block from economic and social policies. Inequalities between (and within) countries should also be seen as consequences of different demographic behaviour by socio-economic status. This topic is very timely, given that social inequalities within and across European countries have been on the rise over the last decades. Education, in particular, plays a chief role as a resource to fight poverty and to ensure greater social and territorial cohesion, as recognised by the Europe 2020 strategy. Moreover, inequalities within and across countries will only become larger due to the recent Covid crisis. The more family background matters in predicting success of individuals in education and, eventually, in their ageing prospects, the more inequalities will be widening and the less societies will be resilient to social crises. The extent to which family background matters is context-dependent in terms of institutional factors and observation periods. During the current reporting period, the project had two main objectives: (1) To study the educational differentials in demographic behaviour and its consequences for children’s educational outcomes; (2) To study the link between individuals’ demographic behaviours and macro-level factors to explain country-differences.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

In the last decades, social inequalities within countries and the rise in socio-economic differences between European countries have been an increasing policy concern. Education plays a chief role as a resource to fight poverty and to ensure greater social and territorial cohesion, within and across countries, as recognised by the Europe 2020 strategy. Supporting individuals to achieve tertiary education is a necessary policy-target, however, in the long-term, it may not be sufficient to eradicate educational differences across countries. This is especially due to the links between differential demographic behaviours by educational groups and the intergenerational transmission of education. Keeping a comparative approach by country and sex, this project aims at highlighting macro-level consequences of the educational gradient in family formation processes and the transmission of tertiary education from one generation to the next one. To this end, I will use the most recent comparable cross-country individual survey-data (SHARE, GGS), and I will apply advanced statistical techniques (i.e., decomposition and simulation methods) that permit to reconcile micro-macro levels of analysis. This project emphasizes the fact that enacting family policies, which aim to flatten the educational gradient in demographic behaviour, is a possible way to reduce educational differences across European countries. Next, I also emphasize the bidirectional relationship between parent-children generations. On the one hand, I focus on the transmission of education from parents to children and, on the other hand, I refer to (potential) feedback effects of children’s education on parents’ survival. Overall, this project will uncover the connections between the fields of demography and social inequalities. Low fertility and higher life expectancy at older ages, which are the drivers of population ageing, are not necessarily bad outcomes when they may lead to a decrease in social inequalities.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

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