Session 78: Education

Friday, July 11 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Besalú

Chair: Helga A.G. de Valk, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

1.	How a change in compulsory attendance law for primary education increased high school enrollment in Turkey  •  Tolga Yuret, Koc University; Insan Tunali, Koc University

2.	Siblings and human capital. A comparison between Italy and France  •  Giulia Ferrari, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, University of Padua

3.	Does social class play the same role in explaining the ethnic gap in education for the first and second generation? results from the 1991 and 2001 Belgian census compared.  •  Vicky Bastiaenssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Migration and globally distributed knowledge networks: scientists, their careers and implications for development  •  Tim Turpin, University of Western Sydney, Australia; Richard Woolley, University of Western Sydney, Australia; Jane Marceau, University of New South Wales; Stephen Hill, University of Wolongong

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