Intergenerational Persistence and Ethnic Disparities in Education

Intergenerational Persistence and Ethnic Disparities in Education

This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in the sociology of educational stratification. Study I draws on newly collected survey data to assess the biases that arise in estimating socioeconomic differences in achievement when relying on parent and student reported data on social background...

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Main Author: Engzell, Per
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen 2016
Subjects:
education
endogeneity
equality of opportunity
ethnic inequality
immigrant selectivity
large-scale assessments
measurement error
proxy variables
social origin
socioeconomic status
Sweden
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