Bilal Barakat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4197293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bilal Barakat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bilal |
| FAMILY NAME | Barakat |
| SIGNATURE | BARAKAT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna Institute of Demography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1420-4405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to special issue
Carrying out research in and on conflict-affected contexts requires entering and negotiating within local and global fields of power. Yet the tensions and wider geopolitical positioning of the field are often relegated to the sidelines in empirical texts. This editorial opens a special issue on reflexivity, relationships and complicity in education in emergencies (EiE) research. The issue straddles concern with the macro dynamics that shape EiE a…
Marginalized Learners in International and Regional Test Data
International assessments inform education policy debates, yet little is known about their floor effects: To what extent do they fail to differentiate between the lowest performers, and what are the implications of this? TIMSS, SACMEQ, and LLECE data are analyzed to answer this question. In TIMSS, floor effects have been reduced through the introduction of a greater number of easy items. SACMEQ and LLECE, despite being specifically designed for d…
All means all
Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global Expansion of School and Higher Education Attainment
The expansion of higher education enrollment and attainment is a key uncertainty in the education profile of future populations. Many studies have examined cross-national determinants of higher education expansion as well the understanding of expansion through the relationship between higher education and the labor market. Early work established a typology for levels of enrollment, but recent empirical studies on the global growth of higher educa…
Time is Money
What do we mean by school entry age ? Conceptual ambiguity and its implications
The age pattern of school entry reflects a complex social and empirical reality that is inadequately captured by a single number. Recognising these complexities in national and international research and policy discourse raises important but neglected questions around the identification of vulnerable groups, the relative value of pre-primary and primary education, as well as the normative powers and responsibilities of governments vis-à-vis paren…
Generalised count distributions for modelling parity
Parametric count distributions customarily used in demography â the Poisson and negative binomial models â do not offer satisfactory descriptions of empirical distributions of completed cohort parity. One reason is that they cannot model variance-to-mean r
Sorry I forgot your birthday!”
When only whole years of age are recorded in survey data, children who experienced a birthday since the beginning of the school year may appear to be of school-age when they are not, or vice-versa. This creates an error in estimates of school participation indicators based on such data. This issue is well-known in education statistics, and several procedures attempting to correct for this error have been proposed. The present study critiques curr…
Improving Adult Literacy Without Improving The Literacy of Adults? A Cross-National Cohort Analysis
A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Population Decline in Saxony
A popular notion asserts that closing the last primary school marks a community's demographic death. No young parents will remain, much less new ones move in. This notion is frequently voiced but rarely verified. Are school closures a cause or consequence of local decline? This study reviews existing research on school locations and peripheral population decline to show that expectations of a dramatic impact of school closures on out‐migration ar…
Corriger les indices de scolarisation par la standardisation des structures par âge
La fréquentation scolaire dépend de l’âge. La composition par âge de la population, par un pur effet de structure, influe sur la valeur des indices agrégés de présence dans le système scolaire tels que les ratios de scolarisation. Ce phénomène n’est généralement pas reconnu et a fortiori pris en compte dans les statistiques scolaires. Au mieux, la question de la structure par âge est simplement considérée comme une source d’erreur de mesure quand…
Modelling the constraints on consanguineous marriage when fertility declines
Consanguinity - or marriage between close blood relatives, in particular first cousins - is widely practised and even socially encouraged in many countries. However, in the face of fertility transition where the number of cousins eligible to marry declines
Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers
Understanding the relationship of education to fertility requires the disentangling of the potentially confounding effect of social status, which is highly correlated with education
Trajectories of education in the Arab world
A second look at “school-life expectancy”
Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050
Using demographic multi-state, cohort-component methods, we produce projections for 120 countries (covering 93% of the world population in 2005) by five-year age groups, sex, and four levels of educational attainment for the years 2005-2050. Taking int
Breaking The Waves ? Does Education Mediate The Relationship Between Youth Bulges And Political Violence ?
Much of the developing world has experienced a decline in mortality, while fertility often has remained high. This has produced youthful populations in many countries, generally referred to as "youth bulges." Recent empirical research suggests that youth bulges may be associated with increased risks of political violence and conflict. This paper addresses ways that education may serve as a strategy to reduce the risk of political violence, partic…
The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite
Journal Article The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar. Get access The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar. Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2005. 406pp. $10.00, ISBN 9950 332 00 1. Bilal Fouad Barakat Bilal Fouad Barakat Department of Educational Studies, Univ…
Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050
Using demographic multi-state, cohort-component methods, we produce projections for 120 countries (covering 93% of the world population in 2005) by five-year age groups, sex, and four levels of educational attainment for the years 2005-2050. Taking int
A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Population Decline in Saxony
A popular notion asserts that closing the last primary school marks a community's demographic death. No young parents will remain, much less new ones move in. This notion is frequently voiced but rarely verified. Are school closures a cause or consequence of local decline? This study reviews existing research on school locations and peripheral population decline to show that expectations of a dramatic impact of school closures on out‐migration ar…
Modelling the constraints on consanguineous marriage when fertility declines
Consanguinity - or marriage between close blood relatives, in particular first cousins - is widely practised and even socially encouraged in many countries. However, in the face of fertility transition where the number of cousins eligible to marry declines
What do we mean by school entry age ? Conceptual ambiguity and its implications
The age pattern of school entry reflects a complex social and empirical reality that is inadequately captured by a single number. Recognising these complexities in national and international research and policy discourse raises important but neglected questions around the identification of vulnerable groups, the relative value of pre-primary and primary education, as well as the normative powers and responsibilities of governments vis-à-vis paren…
Introduction to special issue
Carrying out research in and on conflict-affected contexts requires entering and negotiating within local and global fields of power. Yet the tensions and wider geopolitical positioning of the field are often relegated to the sidelines in empirical texts. This editorial opens a special issue on reflexivity, relationships and complicity in education in emergencies (EiE) research. The issue straddles concern with the macro dynamics that shape EiE a…
Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global Expansion of School and Higher Education Attainment
The expansion of higher education enrollment and attainment is a key uncertainty in the education profile of future populations. Many studies have examined cross-national determinants of higher education expansion as well the understanding of expansion through the relationship between higher education and the labor market. Early work established a typology for levels of enrollment, but recent empirical studies on the global growth of higher educa…
Generalised count distributions for modelling parity
Parametric count distributions customarily used in demography â the Poisson and negative binomial models â do not offer satisfactory descriptions of empirical distributions of completed cohort parity. One reason is that they cannot model variance-to-mean r
A second look at “school-life expectancy”
Improving Adult Literacy Without Improving The Literacy of Adults? A Cross-National Cohort Analysis
Trajectories of education in the Arab world
The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite
Journal Article The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar. Get access The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar. Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2005. 406pp. $10.00, ISBN 9950 332 00 1. Bilal Fouad Barakat Bilal Fouad Barakat Department of Educational Studies, Univ…
The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite
Journal Article The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar. Get access The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar. Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2005. 406pp. $10.00, ISBN 9950 332 00 1. Bilal Fouad Barakat Bilal Fouad Barakat Department of Educational Studies, Univ…
Breaking The Waves ? Does Education Mediate The Relationship Between Youth Bulges And Political Violence ?
Much of the developing world has experienced a decline in mortality, while fertility often has remained high. This has produced youthful populations in many countries, generally referred to as "youth bulges." Recent empirical research suggests that youth bulges may be associated with increased risks of political violence and conflict. This paper addresses ways that education may serve as a strategy to reduce the risk of political violence, partic…
Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050
Using demographic multi-state, cohort-component methods, we produce projections for 120 countries (covering 93% of the world population in 2005) by five-year age groups, sex, and four levels of educational attainment for the years 2005-2050. Taking int
A second look at “school-life expectancy”
Trajectories of education in the Arab world
Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers
Understanding the relationship of education to fertility requires the disentangling of the potentially confounding effect of social status, which is highly correlated with education
A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Population Decline in Saxony
A popular notion asserts that closing the last primary school marks a community's demographic death. No young parents will remain, much less new ones move in. This notion is frequently voiced but rarely verified. Are school closures a cause or consequence of local decline? This study reviews existing research on school locations and peripheral population decline to show that expectations of a dramatic impact of school closures on out‐migration ar…
Corriger les indices de scolarisation par la standardisation des structures par âge
La fréquentation scolaire dépend de l’âge. La composition par âge de la population, par un pur effet de structure, influe sur la valeur des indices agrégés de présence dans le système scolaire tels que les ratios de scolarisation. Ce phénomène n’est généralement pas reconnu et a fortiori pris en compte dans les statistiques scolaires. Au mieux, la question de la structure par âge est simplement considérée comme une source d’erreur de mesure quand…
Modelling the constraints on consanguineous marriage when fertility declines
Consanguinity - or marriage between close blood relatives, in particular first cousins - is widely practised and even socially encouraged in many countries. However, in the face of fertility transition where the number of cousins eligible to marry declines
Sorry I forgot your birthday!”
When only whole years of age are recorded in survey data, children who experienced a birthday since the beginning of the school year may appear to be of school-age when they are not, or vice-versa. This creates an error in estimates of school participation indicators based on such data. This issue is well-known in education statistics, and several procedures attempting to correct for this error have been proposed. The present study critiques curr…
Improving Adult Literacy Without Improving The Literacy of Adults? A Cross-National Cohort Analysis
Time is Money
What do we mean by school entry age ? Conceptual ambiguity and its implications
The age pattern of school entry reflects a complex social and empirical reality that is inadequately captured by a single number. Recognising these complexities in national and international research and policy discourse raises important but neglected questions around the identification of vulnerable groups, the relative value of pre-primary and primary education, as well as the normative powers and responsibilities of governments vis-à-vis paren…
Generalised count distributions for modelling parity
Parametric count distributions customarily used in demography â the Poisson and negative binomial models â do not offer satisfactory descriptions of empirical distributions of completed cohort parity. One reason is that they cannot model variance-to-mean r
Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global Expansion of School and Higher Education Attainment
The expansion of higher education enrollment and attainment is a key uncertainty in the education profile of future populations. Many studies have examined cross-national determinants of higher education expansion as well the understanding of expansion through the relationship between higher education and the labor market. Early work established a typology for levels of enrollment, but recent empirical studies on the global growth of higher educa…
All means all
Marginalized Learners in International and Regional Test Data
International assessments inform education policy debates, yet little is known about their floor effects: To what extent do they fail to differentiate between the lowest performers, and what are the implications of this? TIMSS, SACMEQ, and LLECE data are analyzed to answer this question. In TIMSS, floor effects have been reduced through the introduction of a greater number of easy items. SACMEQ and LLECE, despite being specifically designed for d…
Introduction to special issue
Carrying out research in and on conflict-affected contexts requires entering and negotiating within local and global fields of power. Yet the tensions and wider geopolitical positioning of the field are often relegated to the sidelines in empirical texts. This editorial opens a special issue on reflexivity, relationships and complicity in education in emergencies (EiE) research. The issue straddles concern with the macro dynamics that shape EiE a…
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