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ItemDetrimental Effects of Living with a Grandparent: Cross-National EvidenceMARKS, G (University of Toronto Press, 2007)
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ItemFamily Size, Family Type and Student Achievement: Cross-National Differences and the Role of Socioeconomic and School FactorsMARKS, G (University of Toronto Press, 2006)This paper examines the effects of family size and family type on student achievement in reading and mathematics using data from 30 countries. In most countries, socioeconomic background accounts for a sizable part of the effects of family size on student achievement. There was little evidence for the resource dilution explanation to account for the effects of family size. Socioeconomic background and, in many countries, material resources account for much of the effect of a single-parent family. In contrast, these economic factors account for less of the effect of a reconstituted family. Students from larger, single-parent and reconstituted families tend to be located in the academically weaker parts of the school system. The countries that show stronger effects for family size are not the same countries that show stronger effects for family type. The negative effects on student performance of a single-parent and reconstituted family tend to be stronger in more economically developed countries.
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ItemModernisation Theory and Changes Over-Time in the Reproduction of Socioeconomic Inequalities in AustraliaMARKS, G (Oxford University Press, 2009)
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ItemSocial Effects of the Australian Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS)MARKS, G (Springer, 2009)
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ItemGender Differences in the Effects of Socioeconomic Background: Recent Cross-National EvidenceMARKS, G (SAGE Journals, 2008)This article examines two related questions: (1) Are there gender differences in the influence of socioeconomic background on students' educational performance? and (2) Is student performance influenced more by the socioeconomic characteristics of the same-sex parent? Seven hypotheses are derived and tested using data from 30 countries on student performance in reading and mathematics. There is little or no gender difference in the effects of socioeconomic background on educational performance in almost all countries examined. In no country are all the hypotheses relating to the same-sex socialization model supported, although there is a tendency for father's socioeconomic characteristics and father's occupation to have a stronger impact among boys in some countries. There were very few instances where mother's characteristics were stronger among girls. In sum, there is only limited evidence to support the same-sex socialization model for educational performance.
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ItemDo Schools Matter for Early School Leaving? Individual and School Influences in AustraliaMARKS, G (Taylor and Francis, 2007)
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ItemAre between- and within-school differences in student performance largely due to socio-economic background? Evidence from 30 countriesMARKS, G (Taylor and Francis, 2006)
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ItemExplaining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Student Achievement: The role of home and school factorsMARKS, G ; Cresswell, J ; Ainley, J (Taylor and Francis, 2006)