Family Background and Changing Educational Choices in Denmark: An Application of the Correlated Mare model

Martin D. Munk; James McIntosh

Family Background and Changing Educational Choices in Denmark: An Application of the Correlated Mare model

Martin D. Munk, James McIntosh

Publikation: Konferencebidrag uden forlag/tidsskrift › Paper uden forlag/tidsskrift › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

We examine the participation in upper secondary and tertiary education in 1985 and 2005 using a generalization of the famous Mare educational transition model. The large expansion of secondary education in this twenty year period was characterized by a phenomenal increase in the proportion of this age group which obtained a gymnasium qualification. We find that factors not related to the observable characteristics of the household in which the respondent was raised have become more important relative to family background variables for upper secondary school success than they were a generation ago. As a result Denmark has become a more mobile society. This conclusion is based a new mobility index which we have developed to measure the relative dependence of respondent educational success on family background variables.

Originalsprog	Dansk
Publikationsdato	23 aug. 2010
Antal sider	27
Status	Udgivet - 23 aug. 2010
Begivenhed	31st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth - St. Gallen, Schweiz Varighed: 22 aug. 2010 → 28 aug. 2012

Konference

Konference	31st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth
Land/Område	Schweiz
By	St. Gallen
Periode	22/08/2010 → 28/08/2012

Bibliografisk note

Thirty-first General Conference—St. Gallen, Switzerland, August 22–28, 2010, The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Human Capital session

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Family Background and Changing Educational Choices in Denmark: An Application of the Correlated Mare model. / Munk, Martin D.; McIntosh, James.
2010. Afhandling præsenteret på 31st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, St. Gallen, Schweiz.

Publikation: Konferencebidrag uden forlag/tidsskrift › Paper uden forlag/tidsskrift › Forskning › peer review

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