Cultural Capital and Educational Inequality: A Counterfactual Analysis

We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) data and a counterfactual approach to test the macro-level implications of cultural reproduction and cultural mobility theory. Our counterfactual analyses show that the observed socioeconomic gradient in children’s educational attainment in...

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Main Authors: Mads Meier Jæger, Kristian Karlson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2018-12-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v5-33-775/

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