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    Ana Maria Eichelbaum de Babini

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Principal research officer at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, based at the Centre for Research in Educational Sciences of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute (Buenos Aires). Member of the National Academy of Education. Tenured Professor of Sociology of Education at the Department of Education of the Faculty of Philosophy and Lettres, University of Buenos Aires. Her main works include: Educatión familiar y status socioeconómico; Educación y desarollo económico; La desigualdad educacional; La Villa Misera y la escuela en Buenos Aires; El análisis secundario en la investigación educacional;and Sociologia de la Educación.

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de Babini, A.M.E. Convergence and divergence of education systems in today's world. Prospects 21, 330–339 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02336441

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