Achievement Inequality and the Institutional Structure of Educational Systems: A Comparative Perspective

By H. G. van de Werfhorst, J. Mijs. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Guillermo Montt
2. Y. Xiong
3. Thijs Bol
4. H. G. van de Werfhorst

In Education

1. Thijs Bol
2. Guillermo Montt
3. Y. Xiong
4. H. G. van de Werfhorst
5. Anne West
6. Rita Nikolai

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1. Thijs Bol
2. H. G. van de Werfhorst
3. Y. Xiong
4. Guillermo Montt
5. Anne West
6. Rita Nikolai
7. Thomas A. DiPrete

Citations in the corpus

• The Broken Ladder: Why Education Provides No Upward Mobility for Migrant Children in China* (2015, background): “12 Shavit and Blossfeld 1993; Collins 2009; McLaren 2006; van der Werfhorst and Mijs 2010.”
• Gendered study choice: a literature review. A review of theory and research into the unequal representation of male and female students in mathematics, science, and technology (2013, background): “…that makes use of the recent availability of cross-national databases with micro-data are already venturing into the field of more integrated study design in terms of multi-level studies (e.g., Breen & Goldthorpe, 1997; Breen & Yaish, 2006; Lent & Brown, 2006; Van de Werfhorst & Mijs, 2010).”
• Welfare Regimes and Education Regimes: Equality of Opportunity and Expenditure in the EU (and US) (2013, background): “Significantly, inequalities between pupils from different social groups are accentuated by tracking (e.g., Pfeffer, 2008; van de Werfhorst and Mijs, 2010).”
• Cross-national Differences in Educational Achievement Inequality (2011, background): “Only a limited number of studies analyze the total inequality in achievement, and these generally focus on a narrow set of characteristics of school systems, most notably differentiation and standardization (see Van de Werfhorst and Mijs 2010 for a comparative review).”
• Educational Systems and the Trade-Off between Labor Market Allocation and Equality of Educational Opportunity (2013, background): “of social origin on educational performance tends to be stronger (Brunello and Checchi 2007; Van de Werfhorst and Mijs 2010).”