Du lycéen boursier d’autrefois on se fait souvent une idée simple : celle d’un jeune homme d’origine modeste et accumulant les succès scolaires, qui, grâce à sa bourse, est parvenu à s’élever au sein de la société, qui, parfois, même, est devenu un intellectuel de renom, à l’instar de Péguy, de Pagnol ou de Camus. Sécrétée par l’idéologie mérito¬cr...
It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual’s starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and parental social status are independently positively associa...
Data from the distant past are fertile ground for testing social science theories of education and social mobility. In this study, we construct a dataset from 3,640 tomb epitaphs of males in Chinas Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), which contain granular and extensive information about the ancestral origins, family background, and career histories of the ...
Investment in health has been proposed as a mechanism to promote upward social mobility. Previous analyses have reported inconsistent estimates of the returns to investment in health in Mexico based on different models for different years. We aim to estimate returns for Mexico using data from four time points Adult height and labor income are drawn...
The purpose of this article is to present the results of research that shows how individuals’ social backgrounds influence access to and success in higher education and integration into the job market for a group of graduates from the University of Antioquia’s Social Work program at the Eastern Campus. This study implemented an integrated methodolo...
The civil service examination system emerged to strengthen the emperor's power by recruiting political elites through open examinations. Did it, during the early- and mid-Ming dynasty, facilitate intergenerational mobility? Rather than oversimplifying it as a single-stage system of meritocracy, we propose a two-stage evaluation framework. In the fi...
L’article traite des logiques d’attachement à la politique professionnelle des enseignant·es devenu·es membres de l’Assemblée nationale. S’intéresser à la construction et au déroulement des carrières politiques de ces personnes qui n’ont pas fait que de la politique au cours de leur vie professionnelle permet de dépasser l’opposition entre professi...
This paper explores the factors that influence redistributive preferences in the context of sustained economic expansion, focusing on luck and growth. Using an online survey experiment with a nationally representative sample from China, we find that priming getting rich by non-meritocratic means reduces redistributive support, specifically for poli...
Published in Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Life course research has shown that socioeconomic conditions in childhood have a profound impact on adult health. However, little is known about the different health effects of social mobility. This study was conducted to answer whether the intergenerational social mobility of women in Rasht is related to their quality of life index. This cross-sec...
This article analyzes the geographical mobility towards the city of Valencia between 1416 and 1470, mainly based on the labour, marriage and slave markets, although the proportion of individuals who dictated their last wishes far from their hometowns has also been estimated. In particular, we have analyzed certain documentation preserved in the 37 ...
