The Schooled Society Index: Measuring the increased centrality of education and its societal consequences from a global perspective

Description

This project studies the growth of ‘schooled societies’, a quiet revolution whereby schooling has become a primary and authoritative institution in society. We empirically explore and map cross-national variation regarding the multiple dimensions of 'schooled societies' and its effects on citizen’s thinking, feeling and behaving. To that end, we develop a global comparative dataset and construct the Schooled Society Index, an indicator that operationalizes centrality of schooling in a country. By combining this indicator with international survey data (e.g., WVS/EVS), we assess the effects of the growth of schooled societies on religiosity, political participation and the labour market.

Periode	1 nov 2021 → 1 nov 2023