On class differentials in educational attainment
On class differentials in educational attainment
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0502433102
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发表时间：
2005-07-05
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Cox, DR
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作者：
Erikson, R;Goldthorpe, JH;Cox, DR
许多国家对教育程度方面的社会阶层差异进行了广泛研究。在本文中，我们开始，在英格兰和威尔士的16岁的儿童之间的进展，以高中教育的阶级差异。正如其他国家的情况所表明的那样，造成差异的主要原因是不同阶级背景的儿童学习成绩不同，其次是这些儿童在特定成绩水平上作出的教育选择不同。通过反事实分析，其中一个类的性能分布相结合的选择分布的另一个，主要和次要的影响被分解，前者被证明是后者的大小的大约三倍。
Social class differentials in educational attainment have been extensively studied in numerous countries. In this paper, we begin by examining class differentials in the progression to higher secondary education among 16-year-old children in England and Wales. As has been shown for other countries, the differentials result both from the primary effects of differing levels of academic performance of children of different class background and from the secondary effects of differences in the educational choices that these children make at given levels of performance. Through counterfactual analyses in which the performance distribution of one class is combined with the choice distribution of another, primary and secondary effects are decomposed and the former are shown to be roughly three times the size of the latter.