Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
Mobarak Hossain examines the patterns of intergenerational educational mobility from the 1930s to the 1990s across 91 countries, including 76 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
14 May 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
Mobarak will also explore the role of economic modernisation in shaping intergenerational educational mobility.
Findings from his research suggest a general increase in mobility over time, though with significant variations across regions and gender. While modernisation has widely been assumed to enhance mobility, the study's simulations suggest that if countries had followed their historical mobility trajectories without major external shocks or modernisation shifts, outcomes would have been higher than observed.
Mobarak will discuss how these simulations indicate that modernisation alone may not have contributed to greater mobility in many world regions. This underscores the importance of structural and contextual factors in shaping educational mobility.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers, policymakers and teachers.
Related links
- QSS and CLS seminar series
- Quantitative Social Science
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Social Research Institute
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Jude Beck via Unsplash.
Dr Mobarak Hossain
Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy
London School of Economics
His research interests include comparative education policies and institutions, inequalities, sociology of education, and cross-border policy diffusion, with a particular (but not exclusive) focus on emerging and developing economies.
His current research focuses on global trends in intergenerational educational mobility, determinants of between and within-school inequalities, and the relationship between school choice and learning achievement.
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