David Post
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87124 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Post |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Post |
| FIRMA | POST D |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8318-4260 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 197 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Designed to Fail
After Progress
During the 1950s the field of comparative education was steered by the American idea of progress. The Comparative Education Society was founded under an assumption that research and understanding of education worldwide is progressive, and thus social engineering through education could ameliorate poverty, inequality, disease, and other mid-twentieth-century challenges. This essay speculates on the future of a field that no longer assumes that mor…
Does schooling foster environmental values and action? A cross-national study of priorities and behaviors
Ethnic Inequality in Mexican Education
Since the emergence of Mexico’s secretariat for public education following the revolution (1910–1920), reducing indigenous inequality in educational mobility has been a state objective. Recently, findings have been mixed, with some finding that indigeneity no longer limits educational mobility and others showing evidence of persistent in equality net of socioeconomic background. We draw from modernization theory and the theory of Maximally Mainta…
Adult literacy benefits? New opportunities for research into sustainable development
Fair Access to Higher Education
One Country Two Peoples
This article weighs the demographic evidence for either assimilation or separation among Hong Kong residents who were born in British Colonial Hong Kong or Mainland China. Using successive waves of Hong Kong census data from 1991 to 2011, we show the effects of nativity on four indicators of social distance and differentiation: residential segregation, linguistic assimilation, wage inequality and educational opportunity. On the one hand, there is…
Blurring Boundaries? Immigration and Exogamous Marriages in Hong Kong
This article uses micro-data from the Hong Kong census since 1991 to report trends in the integration of Chinese residents who were born either in Colonial Hong Kong or in Mainland China. We focus on marital exogamy by nativity for women aged 25-34. From 1991 to 2011, we found an increasing likelihood for Hong Kong native men and Mainland women to be married to one another. This increase reflects cross-border marriages. Such exogamous marriages w…
Rank Scholarship
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorialRank ScholarshipDavid PostDavid PostPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTake each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man,And they in France of the best rank and stationAre…
Constitutional Reform and the Opportunity for Higher Education Access in Ecuador Since 1950
Ecuador's 2008 Constitution, and its 2009 national development plan, assign universities the role of reducing social inequality by, among other means, eliminating user fees. This article offers the first over-time assessment of the background tendencies in the accessibility to secondary and postsecondary university. Based on the analysis of 1990 and 2001 census data, and on household surveys from 1988 to the present, I find that women have overta…
In Search of Jefferson‘s Moose
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the strange and largely unexplored New World. Taking a cue from Jefferson's efforts, David Post, one of the nation's leading Internet scholars, here presents a pithy, colorful exploration of the still mostly…
The academic effects of after‐school paid and unpaid work among 14‐year‐old students in TIMSS countries
What it means to be a 'student' varies within and between countries. Apart from the wide variety of school types and school quality that is experienced by young people, there also is, accompanying increased rates of school participation, a growing population of students who work part-time. The theoretical and actual consequences of student work have long been in dispute. This article reformulates the dispute as an empirical question that can be a…
Law and borders
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The great debate
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Family Resources, Gender, and Immigration
Objective. This study gauged the impact of government‐led educational expansion on Hong Kong's social stratification over a 30‐year period. The historically close state control over school supply in Hong Kong allows us to test the effectiveness of public policy in changing the transmission of advantages across generations. Methods. I analyzed household‐level census data from 1971, 1981, 1991, and 2001. Interviews and documents were also used to i…
Children's Work, Schooling, and Welfare in Latin America
From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies. Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Per…
Post-Secondary Education in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has launched an ambitious reform of post-secondary education, expanding student access but also diversifying the missions of institutions and their finance. To illuminate repercussions for civil society, this article identifies three unresolved policy dilemmas. It then presents emergent trends in inequality of access to higher education through analysis of the 1981, 1991, and 2001 population censuses
We Are All Equal
Region, Poverty, Sibship, and Gender Inequality in Mexican Education
Why did gender inequality in secondary school access persist after Mexico made attendance compulsory in 1993? This research reveals an interaction between geography, poverty, and sibship structure in contributing to the underrepresentation of girls in Mexico's poorer southern states. Using regional and contextual information about enrollments and development, a multinomial logistic regression model is estimated. The results show that in addition …
Student Movements and User Fees
The 1999 strike at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilized students around the demand for free public higher education to promote equality of opportunity. In the wake of that movement, it is necessary to evaluate the effects of user fees and of free tuition in promoting equality of opportunity. For this purpose, I used the Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto to gauge the impact of family background and household income on the …
What Larry Doesn't Get
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is Lawrence Lessig's ambitious attempt to make sense of the new kinds of legal and regulatory problems that cyberspace presents to us. It is built upon the foundational premise that code - the hardware and software elements that populate this new place, and the communication protocols that allow these elements to interact with one another - defines the architecture of this new space and is of paramount importance…
The New 'Civic Virtue' of the Internet
Who should the law-makers of cyberspace be? Who should be setting the rules that apply to conduct in the new global medium of 'cyberspace'? What polity or polities should we look to as a source of legitimate and welfare-enhancing rules for conduct on the net? We believe that the most obvious answer to this question - existing territorial sovereigns - may well be wrong. We question whether a governance system divided into territories demarcated by…
Academic Couples
How do the careers and lives of academic couples differ from those of other academics? What advantages and disadvantages do they face, and what problems and opportunities do their increasing numbers present to academic institutions? Sixteen experts address these and many other questions in Academic Couples, offering new research and much vital information
Socio-economic differences in health risk behavior in adolescence
Law and Borders - The rise of law in Cyberspace
Global computer-based communications cross geographic boundaries creating a need for new laws and legal institutions to govern cyberspace
Socio-economic differences in health risk behavior in adolescence
An analysis of cercopithecoid odontometrics. I. The scaling of the maxillary dentition
The relations between two tooth indices, post‐canine area and incisor width in the upper jaw, and three variables, diet, body weight and body weight dimorphism, were examined separately for the males and females of 29 cercopithecoid species. Each species was assigned to one of three diet classes (folivore, frugivore, omnivore). Data on the other variables consisted of species means (log‐transformed) obtained from published sources. The analytic t…
Law and Borders
Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility--and legitimacy--of applying laws based on geographic boundaries. While these electronic communications play havoc with geographic boundaries, a new boundary, made up of the screens and passwords that separate the virtual world from the real world of atoms, emerges. This new boundary defines a distinct Cybers…
Academic Couples
How do the careers and lives of academic couples differ from those of other academics? What advantages and disadvantages do they face, and what problems and opportunities do their increasing numbers present to academic institutions? Sixteen experts address these and many other questions in Academic Couples, offering new research and much vital information
Feeding behavior of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalusin) the Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Blurring Boundaries? Immigration and Exogamous Marriages in Hong Kong
This article uses micro-data from the Hong Kong census since 1991 to report trends in the integration of Chinese residents who were born either in Colonial Hong Kong or in Mainland China. We focus on marital exogamy by nativity for women aged 25-34. From 1991 to 2011, we found an increasing likelihood for Hong Kong native men and Mainland women to be married to one another. This increase reflects cross-border marriages. Such exogamous marriages w…
One Country Two Peoples
This article weighs the demographic evidence for either assimilation or separation among Hong Kong residents who were born in British Colonial Hong Kong or Mainland China. Using successive waves of Hong Kong census data from 1991 to 2011, we show the effects of nativity on four indicators of social distance and differentiation: residential segregation, linguistic assimilation, wage inequality and educational opportunity. On the one hand, there is…
Educational Stratification, School Expansion, and Public Policy in Hong Kong
During the 1970s, there was increased state action in Hong Kong's previously privatized educational system. In 1971, primary education was made free and compulsory, and in 1978, free and compulsory education was extended to the first three years of secondary education. This article examines the consequences of this deliberate expansion of secondary school participation using samples from the 1976, 1981, and 1986 Hong Kong censuses to predict cont…
Family Resources, Gender, and Immigration
Objective. This study gauged the impact of government‐led educational expansion on Hong Kong's social stratification over a 30‐year period. The historically close state control over school supply in Hong Kong allows us to test the effectiveness of public policy in changing the transmission of advantages across generations. Methods. I analyzed household‐level census data from 1971, 1981, 1991, and 2001. Interviews and documents were also used to i…
Trends in Gender and Family Background Effects on School Attainment
Using household census data from Hong Kong in 1971 1976 1981 and 1986 the authors constructed new individual data sets for 4 separate cohorts of youth. The new data include family background variables and allow the authors to examine the selectivity in education over time. The question of how background and gender affect educational attainment is addressed in 2 complementary ways. They first used linear regressions on the number of school years c…
Region, Poverty, Sibship, and Gender Inequality in Mexican Education
Why did gender inequality in secondary school access persist after Mexico made attendance compulsory in 1993? This research reveals an interaction between geography, poverty, and sibship structure in contributing to the underrepresentation of girls in Mexico's poorer southern states. Using regional and contextual information about enrollments and development, a multinomial logistic regression model is estimated. The results show that in addition …
An analysis of cercopithecoid odontometrics. II. Relations between dental dimorphism, body size dimorphism and diet
Odontometric, dietary, and body weight data were collected for a sample of 29 cercopithecoid species. Each species was assigned to one of three diet classes (frugivore, folivore, and omnivore), and indices were constructed to estimate the extent of sexual dimorphism in body weight, postcanine area and incisor width in each of the species. Analysis proceeded by means of the analysis of covariance with the dental dimorphism indices as the dependent…
Does schooling foster environmental values and action? A cross-national study of priorities and behaviors
Rank Scholarship
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorialRank ScholarshipDavid PostDavid PostPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTake each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man,And they in France of the best rank and stationAre…
Constitutional Reform and the Opportunity for Higher Education Access in Ecuador Since 1950
Ecuador's 2008 Constitution, and its 2009 national development plan, assign universities the role of reducing social inequality by, among other means, eliminating user fees. This article offers the first over-time assessment of the background tendencies in the accessibility to secondary and postsecondary university. Based on the analysis of 1990 and 2001 census data, and on household surveys from 1988 to the present, I find that women have overta…
Adult literacy benefits? New opportunities for research into sustainable development
The Social Demand for Education in Peru
Offering a general model for predicting the social demand for college education, human capital theory imputes students' aggregate costs and benefits to postsecondary study. This article questions the applicability of that model in the Third World. The author's study of 3,200 graduating secondary school students in 45 schools in Peru found that no one set of factors explains the decision to seek entrance to a university. Instead, the reasons for c…
Student Movements and User Fees
The 1999 strike at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilized students around the demand for free public higher education to promote equality of opportunity. In the wake of that movement, it is necessary to evaluate the effects of user fees and of free tuition in promoting equality of opportunity. For this purpose, I used the Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto to gauge the impact of family background and household income on the …
The Massification of Education in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's commitment to free schooling in the 1970s led to a massification of its formerly elite education system. Analysis of census data reveals that, consequently, family background and gender have played smaller roles in determining which children go to secondary school. There was no concomitant increase in social selection at the postsecondary level Ironically, the colonial government owed little of its legitimacy to the provision of equal…
An analysis of cercopithecoid odontometrics. I. The scaling of the maxillary dentition
The relations between two tooth indices, post‐canine area and incisor width in the upper jaw, and three variables, diet, body weight and body weight dimorphism, were examined separately for the males and females of 29 cercopithecoid species. Each species was assigned to one of three diet classes (folivore, frugivore, omnivore). Data on the other variables consisted of species means (log‐transformed) obtained from published sources. The analytic t…
An analysis of cercopithecoid odontometrics. II. Relations between dental dimorphism, body size dimorphism and diet
Odontometric, dietary, and body weight data were collected for a sample of 29 cercopithecoid species. Each species was assigned to one of three diet classes (frugivore, folivore, and omnivore), and indices were constructed to estimate the extent of sexual dimorphism in body weight, postcanine area and incisor width in each of the species. Analysis proceeded by means of the analysis of covariance with the dental dimorphism indices as the dependent…
Feeding behavior of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalusin) the Amboseli National Park, Kenya
PS Plans a New Old Approach
Putting Discrimination in Reverse
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Political Goals of Peruvian Students
The hypotheses of three alternative models of education's role in political socialization-Marxist functionalism, rational-action theory, and Weberian perspectives-are presented to illuminate the reasons behind one of Latin America's most enigmatic rebellions of youths: Peru's Sendero Luminoso. These hypotheses were tested using data from a survey of graduating secondary-school students in the Cuzco area. The students were asked to choose from amo…
Influencia del género y de los antecedentes familiares en el rendimiento escolar
The Social Demand for Education in Peru
Offering a general model for predicting the social demand for college education, human capital theory imputes students' aggregate costs and benefits to postsecondary study. This article questions the applicability of that model in the Third World. The author's study of 3,200 graduating secondary school students in 45 schools in Peru found that no one set of factors explains the decision to seek entrance to a university. Instead, the reasons for c…
Trends in Gender and Family Background Effects on School Attainment
Using household census data from Hong Kong in 1971 1976 1981 and 1986 the authors constructed new individual data sets for 4 separate cohorts of youth. The new data include family background variables and allow the authors to examine the selectivity in education over time. The question of how background and gender affect educational attainment is addressed in 2 complementary ways. They first used linear regressions on the number of school years c…
Educational Stratification, School Expansion, and Public Policy in Hong Kong
During the 1970s, there was increased state action in Hong Kong's previously privatized educational system. In 1971, primary education was made free and compulsory, and in 1978, free and compulsory education was extended to the first three years of secondary education. This article examines the consequences of this deliberate expansion of secondary school participation using samples from the 1976, 1981, and 1986 Hong Kong censuses to predict cont…
Law and Borders - The rise of law in Cyberspace
Global computer-based communications cross geographic boundaries creating a need for new laws and legal institutions to govern cyberspace
Law and Borders
Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility--and legitimacy--of applying laws based on geographic boundaries. While these electronic communications play havoc with geographic boundaries, a new boundary, made up of the screens and passwords that separate the virtual world from the real world of atoms, emerges. This new boundary defines a distinct Cybers…
The Massification of Education in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's commitment to free schooling in the 1970s led to a massification of its formerly elite education system. Analysis of census data reveals that, consequently, family background and gender have played smaller roles in determining which children go to secondary school. There was no concomitant increase in social selection at the postsecondary level Ironically, the colonial government owed little of its legitimacy to the provision of equal…
The New 'Civic Virtue' of the Internet
Who should the law-makers of cyberspace be? Who should be setting the rules that apply to conduct in the new global medium of 'cyberspace'? What polity or polities should we look to as a source of legitimate and welfare-enhancing rules for conduct on the net? We believe that the most obvious answer to this question - existing territorial sovereigns - may well be wrong. We question whether a governance system divided into territories demarcated by…
Academic Couples
How do the careers and lives of academic couples differ from those of other academics? What advantages and disadvantages do they face, and what problems and opportunities do their increasing numbers present to academic institutions? Sixteen experts address these and many other questions in Academic Couples, offering new research and much vital information
Socio-economic differences in health risk behavior in adolescence
Student Movements and User Fees
The 1999 strike at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilized students around the demand for free public higher education to promote equality of opportunity. In the wake of that movement, it is necessary to evaluate the effects of user fees and of free tuition in promoting equality of opportunity. For this purpose, I used the Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto to gauge the impact of family background and household income on the …
What Larry Doesn't Get
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is Lawrence Lessig's ambitious attempt to make sense of the new kinds of legal and regulatory problems that cyberspace presents to us. It is built upon the foundational premise that code - the hardware and software elements that populate this new place, and the communication protocols that allow these elements to interact with one another - defines the architecture of this new space and is of paramount importance…
We Are All Equal
Region, Poverty, Sibship, and Gender Inequality in Mexican Education
Why did gender inequality in secondary school access persist after Mexico made attendance compulsory in 1993? This research reveals an interaction between geography, poverty, and sibship structure in contributing to the underrepresentation of girls in Mexico's poorer southern states. Using regional and contextual information about enrollments and development, a multinomial logistic regression model is estimated. The results show that in addition …
Children's Work, Schooling, and Welfare in Latin America
From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies. Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Per…
Post-Secondary Education in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has launched an ambitious reform of post-secondary education, expanding student access but also diversifying the missions of institutions and their finance. To illuminate repercussions for civil society, this article identifies three unresolved policy dilemmas. It then presents emergent trends in inequality of access to higher education through analysis of the 1981, 1991, and 2001 population censuses
Family Resources, Gender, and Immigration
Objective. This study gauged the impact of government‐led educational expansion on Hong Kong's social stratification over a 30‐year period. The historically close state control over school supply in Hong Kong allows us to test the effectiveness of public policy in changing the transmission of advantages across generations. Methods. I analyzed household‐level census data from 1971, 1981, 1991, and 2001. Interviews and documents were also used to i…
Law and borders
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