Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling

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Zitierfähiger Link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10900/111355
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1113555
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-52731
Dokumentart: Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021-01-12
Originalveröffentlichung: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics ; No. 140
Sprache: Englisch
Fakultät: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachbereich: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC-Klassifikation: 330 - Wirtschaft
Schlagworte: Roma <Volk> , Kind , Bildung
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Community influence
Social norms
Social distance
Exposure to relative deprivation
Roma communities
Formal education of children
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Abstract:

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The explanation is based on a theory (Stark et al. 2018) that can be “borrowed” to rationalize the enforcement of norms of little formal education in underprivileged communities. An analysis of survey data collected in Roma communities in four Central and Eastern European countries lends support to the explanation. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the influence of the Roma community on an individual member’s life and the importance accorded by the individual to formal schooling for children. The correlation is robust to controlling for standard determinants of attitudes towards schooling, such as poverty, unemployment, labor market discrimination, and parents’ educational attainment. The analysis suggests that policy interventions aiming to increase the formal education of Roma children need to reckon with the influence of Roma community norms on individual choices.

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