Abstract In response to the relatively low educational attainment of left-behind children in China, this article examines determinants expectations among and how these differ by gender analyzing data collected from 2215 southwestern China. Multinomial logistic regression models that incorporate family economic status, care arrangement under different parental migration patterns, significant oth...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative importance of perceived health and health related lifestyle in adolescence in the production of educational differences. DESIGN A longitudinal study: survey data from 1981 and 1985 linked with Educational Registry data from 1993. SETTING The whole of Finland. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 4761, 16 and 18 year olds. The follow up rate was 82%. M...

OBJECTIVES There have been few studies examining the differences in health care utilization across social classes during the last year of life. Therefore, in this study we analyzed the quantitative and qualitative differences in health care utilization among cancer patients across educational classes in their last year of life, and derived from it implications for policy. METHODS To evaluate ...

Depression is one of the leading causes of disability in the developed world. Previous studies have shown varying depression prevalence rates between European countries, and also within countries, between socioeconomic groups. However, it is unclear whether these differences reflect true variations in prevalence or whether they are attributable to systematic differences in reporting styles (rep...

The paper compares the extent of intergenerational earnings and educational correlation in Japan and France. It uses very similar repeated surveys that provide information on educational attainment and family background, conducted in Japan and France. To insure comparability, similar sample restrictions and specifications are imposed. For Japan, we use waves 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2005. For...

OBJECTIVE To study the trends of socioeconomic inequalities and socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived health in Spain between 1987 and 2001. METHODS We estimated the distribution of educational level and per capita provincial income, and the differences in less-than-good self-perceived health by educational level and per capita provincial income in each period. RESULTS The percentage...

In modern society, education has become a major element of stratification and differen tiation. This paper examines how educational differences across and within family relationships affect the content of the relationship, thereby focusing on proximity and contact between parents and adult children and between siblings. Hypotheses are developed about why education should matter, using theoretic...