Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany

The last five decades

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils independent of parental background equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Ge...

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Volume:	229
Main Author:	Heineck, Guido Riphahn, Regina T
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	STUTTGART LUCIUS & LUCIUS 2009 Lucius & Lucius LUCIUS LUCIUS VERLAG MBH Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Department of Statistics and Economics
published in:	Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Vol. 229; no. 1; pp. 36 - 60
Data of publication:	2009
ISSN:	0021-4027 2366-049X
EISSN:	2366-049X
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik)
Subjects:	Bildungschance Soziale Lage Hochschule Deutschland Schulpolitik Schüler Soziale Mobilität Outcomes of education Parental education Higher education Rural areas Parents Secondary schools Children Educational attainment Siblings intergenerational mobility Education transmission schooling human capital transmission Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods Education transmission; intergenerational mobility; schooling; human capital transmission NURTURE MODELS PUBLIC-EDUCATION INEQUALITY EXPANSION RETURNS COHORT INCOME-DISTRIBUTION
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