TY - JOUR

T1 - The Making and Unmaking of Opportunity

T2 - Educational Mobility in 20th Century-Denmark

AU - Karlson, Kristian Bernt

AU - Landersø, Rasmus

PY - 2024/5

Y1 - 2024/5

N2 - We examine trends in intergenerational educational mobility over the 20th centuryin Denmark. We demonstrate how major compulsory schooling reforms substantially increased not only levels of education but also intergenerational mobility in education for children born in the 1940s through 1960s. For children born in the 1970s and 1980s, however, even as college education has expanded significantly, educational mobility has been declining. We empirically test different mechanisms that may account for this decline.

AB - We examine trends in intergenerational educational mobility over the 20th centuryin Denmark. We demonstrate how major compulsory schooling reforms substantially increased not only levels of education but also intergenerational mobility in education for children born in the 1940s through 1960s. For children born in the 1970s and 1980s, however, even as college education has expanded significantly, educational mobility has been declining. We empirically test different mechanisms that may account for this decline.

UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjoe.12567

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12567

DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12567

M3 - Journal article

JO - Scandinavian Journal of Economics

JF - Scandinavian Journal of Economics

SN - 0347-0520

ER -