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Samantha B. Kane – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This paper studies the impact of state reproductive rights laws on women's human capital decisions after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022). Using data from the Common App, the undergraduate college admission application, I implement a…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, College Applicants, Females, High Achievement
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Kamil Luczaj – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This paper looks at the phenomenon of upward mobility through education from a comparative and historical perspective. Pierre Bourdieu referred to upwardly mobile individuals in France as the miraculous ("les miraculés"), oblates ("oblats"), or, less often, defectors ("transfuges"). A difficulty with applying a theory…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Socioeconomic Status, High Achievement, Aspiration