Inequality of opportunity in comparative perspective : Recent research on educational attainment and social mobility

By R. Breen, Jan O. Jonsson. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Home literacy environments and children's reading performance: a comparative study of 25 countries (2008, background): “Beyond a body of research that focused on cross-national differences in the influences of socioeconomic aspects of family background (Breen & Jonsson, 2005 ; Shavit & Blossfeld, 1993 ), the current study examined cultural aspects of family background as related to children's education.”
Variation in the Heritability of Educational Attainment: An International Meta-Analysis (2013, background): “5 See Breen et al. (2009) for twentieth-century attainment trends in Italy, Great Britain, Sweden and Germany; Núñes (2001) on Spain; Alexander and Eckland (1974) and Everett et al.”
Inequality in homeschooling during the Corona crisis in the Netherlands. First results from the LISS Panel. (2020, background): “…economics is that children from disadvantaged families have fewer opportunities in education than children from a higher socio-economic background (Breen and Jonsson, 2005) In the Netherlands these inequalities are reported too: the Dutch Educational Inspectorate repeatedly reported large gaps in…”
Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement (2013, positive): “…attainment demonstrated the importance of family background and the intervening effects of education on adult attainment (Blau & Duncan, 1967), scholars developed increasingly sophisticated models of why and how education was so consequential (Breen & Jonsson, 2005; Shavit & Blossfeld, 1993).”
Economic Crisis and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Latin America (2010, background): “Disparities in the earlier educational transitions have been found to decline in several European countries (Breen et al. 2009; Breen and Jonsson 2005:226), and equalization extends to higher educational levels in social-democratic countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands.”
“Fair” Inequality? Attitudes toward Pay Differentials: The United States in Comparative Perspective (2006, background): “Sociologists have a long history of comparative studies investigating social class and occupational mobility (e.g., Breen and Jonsson 2005; Erikson and Goldthorpe 1985, 1992, 2002; Grusky and Hauser, 1984) which conclude that whether income or occu- 4 See, for example, the review essays on…”
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, background): “The reduction of educational inequality, however, is neither guaranteed by nor predicated upon an expansion of postsecondary education (Breen and Jonsson 2005; Shavit and Blossfeld 1993).”
Educational choices and the selection process: before and after compulsory schooling (2012, positive): “Breen and Luijkx ( 2004 ) and Breen and Jonsson ( 2005 ) review research published on educational (and occupational) stratification and indicate Italy among the less open societies.”