Descrizione del progetto
Indagare la disuguaglianza guidata dall’istruzione
Attraverso uno studio interdisciplinare, il progetto UNEQUALED, finanziato dall’UE, cerca risposte alle pressanti domande sulle disuguaglianze nell’apprendimento e nelle opportunità di vita futura. Il progetto si concentra principalmente sull’identificazione e l’analisi dei limiti all’istruzione, come le barriere finanziarie, tecnologiche, organizzative della scuola e socio-emotive degli studenti, al fine di proporre modi per superare la disuguaglianza. Partendo dalla quantificazione dei limiti, il team di ricercatori utilizzerà poi grandi serie di dati per indagare il ruolo di ogni barriera identificata e determinare il suo impatto sulle scelte degli studenti e sui risultati scolastici. L’ambito di UNEQUALED è impostato a livello nazionale in Francia, utilizzando i dati di campioni rappresentativi.
Obiettivo
Project UNEQUALED aims to study educational constraints faced by individuals at a stage when they are planning their future investments in human capital. Despite its importance, understanding the determinants of educational choices has been a longstanding challenge for two important reasons. First, it requires broad, representative, data. Secondly, because the environment in which individuals’ educational plans are formed, and adjust, is typically endogenous to their characteristics. I will tackle these issues using large interventions on nationally representative samples of individuals.
Different parts of project UNEQUALED target specific questions that will help construct an overall picture. The project will seek to understand, and quantify, the role of the different barriers in leading to unequal learning and opportunities and the effects of easing the constraints. Specifically asking: Can the easing of technological constraints reduce learning inequality? What role does ICT access and training play for distance learning? Does differential social exposure within the classroom impact student outcomes? Can role models help an individual reach their goal? How important are psychological (or socio-emotional) barriers for achievement?
I will address each part using detailed micro longitudinal data, but at a macro level (large scale, nationally representative samples). I plan to combine economic concepts with field interventions, experiments and rich econometric and computer sciences tools to analyse big datasets and to causally estimate the impact of the components that drive the adjustment in educational plans, and, ultimately, how these factors into later educational outcomes. All projects will aim to capture the short and long-run impacts. To carry off this ambitious research project, I will work with a large and interdisciplinary network of researchers specializing in economics, statistics, computer science, management science, and public policy.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsIstituzione ospitante
75341 Paris
Francia