Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Denmark and the United States

Andrade, Stefan Bastholm; Thomsen, Jens‐Peter

doi:10.15195/v5.a5

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“…This moves Norway from the top to the bottom of the mobility league table. If true, it would invalidate one of the better-documented findings to emerge from crosscountry comparative research: that social mobility is higher in Scandinavia than elsewhere (5)(6)(7)(8)(9). We suspect a more mundane explanation: Mobility estimates using different samples and procedures are not comparable, and mixing them should be avoided.…”

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Reply to Morris: Heritability of education remains associated with social mobility

Engzell¹,

Tropf²

2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Reply to Morris: Heritability of education remains associated with social mobility

Engzell¹,

Tropf²

2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Stefan B. Andrade and Jens-Peter Thomsen's article provides a comparative analysis of intergenerational educational mobility in the United States and Denmark. The authors argue that this figure is higher in Denmark [2].…”

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Educational Strategies of Population: Intergenerational Mobility Analysis

Ларионова¹,

Varlamova²,

Balashova³

2020

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2020)

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Education is one of the main factors affecting intergenerational mobility of the population, and therefore it affects the standard of living. Inequality can be inherited, and one of the tasks of the state is to overcome this tendency. We want to check whether parental education affects children's education. The main research method is the construction of ordinal logistic regressions. Work is based on RLMS data. The paper considers the general intergenerational educational mobility and its gender component. In particular, the following gender lines were identified: "mother-daughter", "father-son". The results of the study confirm the dependence of children's education on the education of parents. In addition, we see that being a male, having a birth or living in a rural area will reduce the likelihood of achieving high levels of education. This indicates the need to support the rural population, increasing the availability of education.

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“…After compulsory school, practically all children attend secondary-level high school as it is mandatory to a certain age. In high school, students choose academic or vocational courses; thus, the educational system in the U.S. does not divide students into academic and vocational tracks during secondary-level education (Andrade and Thomsen, 2018). After high school, students can enroll in postsecondary education to complete either an academic or a vocational degree.…”

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The pattern of educational inequality - The contribution of family background on levels of education over time and across four countries

Sirniö¹,

Lehti²,

Grätz³

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This article analyses the pattern of inequality across levels of education and its evolution over time from a cross-national comparative perspective. We employ a previously disregarded approach of sibling correlations to measure how the contribution of the total family background differs across achieved levels of education. We compare successive birth cohorts in Finland, Sweden, Germany, and the U.S. between 1990 and 2015. We further analyze the extent to which the total contribution of parental background is accounted for by observed parental education. Our results indicate a pattern in which sibling similarity is strongest in the lowest and the highest levels of education in all studied countries. Changes over time were more pronounced in the Nordics and in educational levels other than the lowest. Observed parental education played a less notable role than expected, indicating that using only parental education ignores a substantial portion of the total influence of family background.

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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Denmark and the United States

Abstract: An overall finding in comparative mobility studies is that intergenerational mobility is greater in Scandinavia than in liberal welfare-state countries like the United States and United Kingdom. However, in a recent study,

Cited by 33 publications

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Reply to Morris: Heritability of education remains associated with social mobility

Reply to Morris: Heritability of education remains associated with social mobility

Educational Strategies of Population: Intergenerational Mobility Analysis

The pattern of educational inequality - The contribution of family background on levels of education over time and across four countries

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