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Markus Klein

@markusklein.bsky.social

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Sociologist, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | schoolattendance.org

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧? 👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️ 💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men 🎲 Random assignment? No change osf.io/preprints/so...

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🚨Using linked school admin & Census data for Scotland, we show that truancy and sickness absences in secondary school reduce further/higher ed chances; sickness absences raises NEET risk. Achievement mediates some effects, but health & behaviour seems also key. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

6/ Sociodemographic consistency: The negative impact of absenteeism is consistent across all UK nations and sociodemographic groups, though disadvantaged groups are disproportionately more likely to be absent.

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

5/ Psychosocial factors: Absenteeism contributes to decreased motivation and increased problem and risky behaviours, which, in turn, harms academic achievement. Prosocial behaviour and self-esteem do not mediate these negative effects.

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

4/ Authorised vs. Unauthorised Absences: Both types of absences harm educational attainment equally at all school stages.

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

3/ Absence Trajectories: Increasing absence patterns, starting in primary school and intensifying during the primary-secondary transition, are most harmful. Moderate absences throughout schooling also have significant negative effects, see also journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

2/ Stage-specific Impact: Absences are harmful at all stages, but especially detrimental during the transition from primary to secondary school and early-to-middle secondary stages, see also osf.io/preprints/ed...

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

1/ Impact on outcomes: School absences negatively affect both short-term school attainment and long-term educational and labour market success in mid-adulthood. This effect is consistent across the UK, see also bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms. Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

📢The first research brief from our Nuffield Foundation project identifies typical school absence trajectories from year 1 to year 11 and their consequences for GCSE achievement in England. Brief: shorturl.at/cvTU7 Preprint: shorturl.at/npxQ2 #edusky #edpolicy #Sociology #socsky

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Are boys more disadvantaged in academic achievement and behaviour problems when raised in adverse family circumstances? We find this variation in gender differences by maternal education but not by family structure: shorturl.at/gzIK9 Glad this is out now in Socius after 5 rejections 😌 #Sociology

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Are absences from school more detrimental to the academic performance of low-SES than high-SES students? Overall absences and truancy are equally harmful; sickness absence has a more detrimental impact on low-SES students. New paper in Sociology of Education: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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