An Empirical Test of the Cultural Capital Hypothesis

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Johnson ◽  
Elisa Jayne Bienenstock ◽  
Jennifer A. Stoloff
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Using Data

Using data from the Multi-City Survey of Urban Inequality, an exploratory, empirical analysis of the cultural capital hypothesis was conducted. The analyses indicate that, while the types of cultural influences cited by proponents of this thesis clearly have negative effects on employment when viewed in isolation from other factors, they are not significant when statistical controls for human capital variables are incorporated into the model. Our findings suggest the need to invest more resources in the public education system and in efforts to combat racial discrimination in the labor market.

Provincial Governance of Education—The Western Cape Experience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Robert ◽  
Brian Levy
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Political Party ◽  
School Level ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Bureaucracy

The focus of this chapter is the management and governance of education at provincial level—specifically on efforts to introduce performance management into education by the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), and their impact. Post-1994 the WCED inherited a bureaucracy that was well placed to manage the province’s large public education system. Subsequently, irrespective of which political party has been in power, the WCED consistently has sought to implement performance management. This chapter explores to what extent determined, top-down efforts, led by the public sector, can improve dismal educational performance. It concludes that the WCED is a relatively well-run public bureaucracy. However, efforts to strengthen the operation of the WCED’s bureaucracy have not translated into systematic improvements in schools in poorer areas. One possible implication is that efforts to strengthen hierarchy might usefully be complemented with additional effort to support more horizontal, peer-to-peer governance at the school level.

The “Fed-up Taxpayer”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Teacher Unions ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
Teacher Strikes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Teacher ◽  
American Cities

This chapter chronicles the new reality faced by urban teacher unions after the emergence of austerity regimes in many American cities. It charts teacher strikes in St. Louis (1979) and Philadelphia (1980 and 1981). In each case, teacher unions faced staunch taxpayer resistance to salary increases, and in the case of Philadelphia, a mayor who dealt with massive budget deficits by reneging on a collectively-bargained contract. As importantly, in Philadelphia, opponents of the “unproductive” urban poor and unionized teachers began to imagine market reforms of the public education system. The chapter concludes by documenting the emergence of vouchers in order to understand the mounting challenge of neoliberalism to American public education.

scholarly journals Bureaucratic Minimal Squawk Behavior: Theory and Evidence from Regulatory Agencies

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Leaver
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Behavior Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Using Data

This paper develops a model in which a desire to avoid criticism prompts otherwise public-spirited bureaucrats to behave inefficiently. Decisions are taken to keep interest groups quiet and to keep mistakes out of the public eye. The policy implications of this “minimal squawk” behavior are at odds with the view that agencies should be structured to minimize the threat of “capture.” An empirical test using data from US State Public Utility Commissions rejects the capture hypothesis and is consistent with the squawk hypothesis: longer PUC terms of office are associated with a higher incidence of rate reviews and lower household electricity bills. (JEL D73, L51, L97, L98)

scholarly journals SPECIFICITY OF THE STATE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN WEST KAZAKHSTAN REGION IN THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(79)) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
O. Babenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
The West ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Composition ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
West Kazakhstan ◽  
Revolutionary Period

The article presents archival materials that reveal the essence of the formation and development of public education in the West Kakhakhstan region in the pre-revolutionary period, reveals the historical and educational processes of its formation. When studying archival materials, the author comes to the conclusion that the social composition of students justified the class character of the public education system, namely: the children of officials, clergy, merchants, rural and urban bourgeoisie, rich Cossacks, nobles in General made up a fairly large stratum in secondary schools.

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