• Educational achievement among children with a disability: do parental resources compensate for disadvantage? 

      Brekke, Idunn; Alecu, Andreea Ioana; Ugreninov, Elisabeth; Suren, Pål; Evensen, Miriam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We examined the impact of child disability on Grade Points Average (GPA) using all children aged 15–16 years who completed their lower secondary education and registered with a GPA score in the period from 2016 to 2020 in ...
    • The health of mothers caring for a child with a disability: a longitudinal study 

      Brekke, Idunn; Alecu, Andreea Ioana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Raising a child with disabilities requires a significant parental investment that is greater than that required by typically developing children. Previous studies have shown that parents caring for a child with ...
    • Predicting stable employment trajectories among young people with disabilities 

      Ballo, Jannike Gottschalk; Alecu, Andreea Ioana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research aiming to explain disabled people’s inequalities in the labour market has primarily focused on transitional factors between school and work, wage gaps, or socioeconomic background characteristics as expla- nations ...
    • Who you know: The classed structure of social capital 

      Alecu, Andreea Ioana; Helland, Håvard; Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Jarness, Vegard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article focuses on the social structuring of social capital, understood as resources embedded in social networks. The analysis integrates key theoretical–methodological insights from two distinct approaches concerned ...