Educational mobility across three generations: The changing impact of parental social class, economic, cultural and social capital
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Educational mobility across three generations : The changing impact of parental social class, economic, cultural and social capital. / Jaeger, Mads Meier.
In: European Societies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 01.09.2007, p. 527-550.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Educational mobility across three generations
T2 - The changing impact of parental social class, economic, cultural and social capital
AU - Jaeger, Mads Meier
PY - 2007/9/1
Y1 - 2007/9/1
N2 - This article addresses why the literature on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEO) reaches diverging results concerning the decline or persistency of IEO over time. The main argument in this article is that the diverging results may be caused by the fact that the social class variables used to capture trends in IEO act as proxies for unobserved family-background influences that are substantively different from social class. The article analyses extremely rich longitudinal data from Denmark spanning three generations within the same family lineage. It demonstrates, first, that the effect of social class on secondary schooling is overstated when other family influences, conceptualised as economic, cultural and social capital, and unobserved family influences are not taken into consideration, and second, as in the other Scandinavian countries, that IEO has declined significantly in the postwar period.
AB - This article addresses why the literature on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEO) reaches diverging results concerning the decline or persistency of IEO over time. The main argument in this article is that the diverging results may be caused by the fact that the social class variables used to capture trends in IEO act as proxies for unobserved family-background influences that are substantively different from social class. The article analyses extremely rich longitudinal data from Denmark spanning three generations within the same family lineage. It demonstrates, first, that the effect of social class on secondary schooling is overstated when other family influences, conceptualised as economic, cultural and social capital, and unobserved family influences are not taken into consideration, and second, as in the other Scandinavian countries, that IEO has declined significantly in the postwar period.
KW - Denmark
KW - Educational attainment
KW - Family background
KW - Mixed logit model
KW - Social class
KW - Social inequality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548654455&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14616690701449568
DO - 10.1080/14616690701449568
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:34548654455
VL - 9
SP - 527
EP - 550
JO - European Societies
JF - European Societies
SN - 1461-6696
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 209834773