Chapter 4: The Expansion of Education

Craig, John E.

doi:10.3102/0091732x009001151

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“…Meanwhile, scholars representing the 'demand-side' argue that supply is highly elastic in the long run and determined by primary actors such as individuals or the family unit (Craig 1981). Education is then a consumption good demanded for the satisfaction it provides.…”

Section: Supply and Demand In Educational Expansionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses

Aboagye

2021

Economic History of Developing Regions

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How and why did African households under colonial rule make the decision to educate their children or not, and how did this microlevel decision making affect the diffusion of education in colonial Ghana? This paper addresses these questions and shows that many households were reluctant to enrol their children in school because the costs of colonial education were prohibitive, and the benefits were limited. Unemployment of school leavers was a major social problem throughout the colonial era and returns to education did not justify investments in education. The demand for education was relatively high in areas where the demand for skilled labour was high, and from the late 1930s when there were growing pay-offs to colonial education. Overall, the paper points to the need to examine interactions between supply and demand factors in order to understand variations in human capital accumulation in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: Supply and Demand In Educational Expansionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the above views on educational expansion might appear to be poles apart it is possible to unite them (Craig 1981). 'State' or 'corporate' action and primary (family or individual) action are both essential to educational development, but their relative importance vary depending on the case.…”

Section: Supply and Demand In Educational Expansionmentioning

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Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses

Aboagye

2021

Economic History of Developing Regions

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“…The first is the possible secular trend of increasing demand for education pushed by modernization and the gradual upgrading of social structure over time (Craig 1981;Schofer and Meyer 2005). This process implies a positive correlation between year of birth and educational attainment.…”

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The Demographic Echo of War and educational attainment in Soviet Russia

Yastrebov¹

2021

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BACKGROUNDResearch on Western countries has shown that birth cohort size is negatively related to educational attainment. It has offered complementary interpretations of this association -optimal schooling choices versus cohort overcrowding effects -that are difficult to resolve empirically. OBJECTIVETo investigate birth cohort size effects on educational attainment taking shape primarily in the context of a socialist society that does not lend itself well to "optimal schooling" interpretations. METHODSI exploit birth cohort size variation generated by the Second World War, a phenomenon known as the Demographic War Echo. Using the Education and Employment Survey for Russia and growth curve modeling, I analyze educational trajectories between ages 18 and 35 among Russian men and women born 1950-1987. RESULTSLarger cohorts attained less schooling and advanced more slowly in their educational careers. They could partly make up for the disadvantage by studying longer and retreating to part-time education. The disadvantage was larger for women because for men it was partly compensated through a decreased probability of military conscription. CONCLUSIONSLarger birth cohort size disadvantaged young Russians in the process of educational attainment. Given the context, this can be attributed entirely to cohort overcrowding effects.

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“…To quantify both the mobility and the fertility pathway of educational reproduction provides a richer account of the structural forces that shape wider structural changes, such as educational expansion. Expansion of educational opportunities and changing incentives for educational attainment are frequently connected to increasing enrolment (Craig 1981;Hannum et al 2019). However, educational expansion is partly endogenous to demographic behaviour such as educationally stratified fertility, a mechanism which often remains neglected.…”

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Educational reproduction in Sweden: A replication of Skopek and Leopold 2020 using Swedish data

Wittemann

2023

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BACKGROUNDIntergenerational social mobility, or the inheritance of status characteristics, is wellstudied in Sweden. However, it accounts for just one aspect of the process of intergenerational reproduction of social inequality. The role of socially stratified fertility in this process remains underexplored. OBJECTIVEI address the gap in knowledge by replicating the approach pioneered by Skopek and Leopold (2020) in the context of Germany in order to study the relative contributions of the mobility component vis-à-vis the fertility component in the educational reproduction of Swedish cohorts born between 1930 and 1950. METHODThe approach involves estimating several components of a stylized population renewal model using retrospective data and performing counterfactual simulations. I utilize data from the Swedish samples of the Generations and Gender Survey, the European Social Survey, and the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. RESULTSMy findings for Sweden reveal a relatively strong degree of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment, increasing for men and decreasing for women, coupled with an overall weak but stable educational gradient in fertility. Educational reproduction in Sweden is thus mostly driven by the mobility component. CONTRIBUTIONThis is the first study to obtain prospective estimates of educational reproduction based on retrospective data and to explore the relative role of mobility vis-à-vis fertility in the process of intergenerational reproduction of social inequality in Sweden.

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Chapter 4: The Expansion of Education

Cited by 21 publications

References 131 publications

Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses

Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses

The Demographic Echo of War and educational attainment in Soviet Russia

Educational reproduction in Sweden: A replication of Skopek and Leopold 2020 using Swedish data

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