John Jerrim

TL;DR: This paper found that educational attainment is an important driver of the relationship between intergenerational mobility and income inequality, and that unequal access to financial resources plays a central role in the inter-generational transmission of advantage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided new insight into the England-East Asia gap in school children's mathematics skills by considering how cross-national differences in math test scores change between ages 10 and 16 and concluded that reform the secondary school system may not be the most effective way for England to catch up with the East Asian nations in the PISA math rankings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the consistency of the intergenerational correlation (ρ) and the elasticity (β) was investigated for cross-national comparisons of cross-generational earnings mobility, and it was shown that the magnitude of this problem is much greater for the former than it is for the latter.

TL;DR: The benefits and risks of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic are reviewed, a key principles for reopening schools are outlined and there is no evidence that children are more likely to transmit than adults, unlike in some respiratory viruses.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether children of East Asian descent, who were born and raised in a Western country (Australia), also score highly on the PISA test and explored whether their superior performance relative to children of Australian heritage can be explained by reasons often given for East Asian students' extraordinary educational achievements.