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The Tension between Money and Culture: Inequality, Economic Capital, Cultural Capital, and High School Students' Educational Achievements from a Comparative Perspective
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Yuxiao Wu; Jingjing Wang – American Educational Research Journal, 2025
This study investigated how income inequality shapes the role of economic and cultural capital in students' academic performance. By analyzing a multilevel dataset of 72 countries (economies), we found that (1) the associations between economic capital and academic achievements are stronger in unequal societies than in equal ones, whereas the…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Cultural Capital, Academic Achievement, Social Environment