Name and Surname
Nemanja Vuksanović
Affiliation
Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade
Contact email
nemanja.vuksanovic@ekof.bg.ac.rs
Short Biography
Nemanja Vuksanović was born in Belgrade in 1990. He is employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, where he teaches Basics of Economics and Contemporary Economic Systems. He defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of economics of education in September 2022. He is the winner of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowhip Fund scholarship of the Tokyo Foundation for the year 2020 for the best doctoral students, as well as the Sylff Research Abroad without Overseas Travel for FY2021 award for the year 2021, which is awarded for the purpose of preparing a doctoral dissertation. In the course of his studies, he further improved his skills during his stay in Lisbon and Barcelona. He is a researcher at the Foundation for the Development of Economic Science.
Research abstract
Examining unequal opportunities in education in Serbia and defining recommendations for public policy makers based on research results
The subject of the project is the examination of unequal educational opportunities in Serbia. Such an examination is important if one considers the link between education and income distribution, since the existence of unequal opportunities in education is largely reflected in unequal opportunities in future incomes. The importance of the research is reflected in the fact that this cycle of unequal opportunities in education can be repeated between generations because children of poorer parents eventually become parents themselves and pass on the described unequal opportunities in the sphere of education to their children. Moreover, the level of education can be linked to other important dimensions of society, such as the level of health or the level of participation in democratic procedures, so that inequality in educational opportunities can be reflected in gaps in other important segments of social life. Based on the findings, it is possible to define measures and guidelines for public policy makers in the domain of creating a fairer society in Serbia with a focus on increasing the availability of higher education.