Krishna Prasad Sharma Chapai

The intergenerational transmission of advantage: parental education, out-of-school engagement and mathematics achievement in 81 countries

Parental education predicts academic success, but its transmission is often oversimplified. This study examines how students’ out-of-school engagement, what Bourdieu called internalized family dispositions or ‘habitus’, mediates this relationship for mathematics achievement. Usin...