And their children after them? The effect of college on educational reproduction

Conventional analyses of social mobility and status reproduction retrospectively compare an outcome of individuals to a characteristic of their parents. By ignoring the mechanisms of family formation and excluding childless individuals, conventional approaches introduce selection bias into estimates...

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Main Authors: Lawrence, M, Breen, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2016