New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧?

👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️
💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men
🎲 Random assignment? No change

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Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨Using linked school admin & Census data for Scotland, we show that truancy and sickness absences in secondary school reduce further/higher ed chances; sickness absences raises NEET risk. Achievement mediates some effects, but health & behaviour seems also key. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

6/ Sociodemographic consistency: The negative impact of absenteeism is consistent across all UK nations and sociodemographic groups, though disadvantaged groups are disproportionately more likely to be absent.

5/ Psychosocial factors: Absenteeism contributes to decreased motivation and increased problem and risky behaviours, which, in turn, harms academic achievement. Prosocial behaviour and self-esteem do not mediate these negative effects.

4/ Authorised vs. Unauthorised Absences: Both types of absences harm educational attainment equally at all school stages.

3/ Absence Trajectories: Increasing absence patterns, starting in primary school and intensifying during the primary-secondary transition, are most harmful. Moderate absences throughout schooling also have significant negative effects, see also journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

2/ Stage-specific Impact: Absences are harmful at all stages, but especially detrimental during the transition from primary to secondary school and early-to-middle secondary stages, see also osf.io/preprints/ed...

1/ Impact on outcomes: School absences negatively affect both short-term school attainment and long-term educational and labour market success in mid-adulthood. This effect is consistent across the UK, see also bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge

📢The first research brief from our Nuffield Foundation
project identifies typical school absence trajectories from year 1 to year 11 and their consequences for GCSE achievement in England.

Brief: shorturl.at/cvTU7
Preprint: shorturl.at/npxQ2

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Are boys more disadvantaged in academic achievement and behaviour problems when raised in adverse family circumstances?

We find this variation in gender differences by maternal education but not by family structure: shorturl.at/gzIK9

Glad this is out now in Socius after 5 rejections 😌

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Are absences from school more detrimental to the academic performance of low-SES than high-SES students?

Overall absences and truancy are equally harmful; sickness absence has a more detrimental impact on low-SES students.

New paper in Sociology of Education: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...