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Grit and resilient students: an empirical analysis into the EOp framework

Ferrulli, Eustachio
(2022)

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Supervisors
Hindriks, Jean
Faculty
Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication
Degree label
Master [120] en sciences économiques, orientation générale, à finalité approfondie
Abstract
Education is becoming important in economics and modern societies: it is crucial for medium-long term growth and it is the main social elevator. Ensuring equal educational opportunities has become one of the main tools for policymakers to foster meritocracy, freedom and efficiency. To investigate educational equality of opportunity in this thesis I will focus on resilient students: those who are characterized by a low level of family background and achieve very high school grades. The present thesis analyses how individual and social factors influence students’ resilience using a database of 193514 students derived from the OECD PISA database. I found that gritty students have a higher probability of being resilient. Family background and school context are also determinants of students’ resilience, but this result is not fully consistent across different model specifications and resilience definitions.