EDUCATIONAL I N EQUALITY AND T H E E XPANSION O F UK H IGHER E DUCATION

By Joanne Blanden, Stephen Machin. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Valuing School Quality, Better Transport, and Lower Crime: Evidence from House Prices (2008, background): “Well, ample evidence exists that tells us that children’s academic achievements are correlated with the income and income-related characteristics of their parents (Blanden and Machin, 2004; Cameron and Heckman, 1998).”
Family income and educational attainment: a review of approaches and evidence for Britain (2004, background): “Reassuringly, results presented in Blanden and Machin (2004) show similar patterns for degree attainment when we consider graduation by age 23 in all the datasets.”
Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education (2006, background): “The growing imbalance in access to higher education by family background as HE expanded has been noted in a number of other papers, (Blanden and Machin, 2004; Glennester, 2002) and here we provide powerful evidence that this imbalance is partly driving the decline in intergenerational mobility in…”
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility (2010, background): “Blanden and Machin (2004) do not explicitly calculate intergenerational persistence but show that, in the U.K., the recent higher education expansion has disproportionately benefited children from higher income (and presumably, higher 32 The Hertz et al. (2007) and Chevalier et al. (2009) findings…”
Higher education, career opportunities, and intergenerational inequality (2016, background): “Although the proportion of students from poor backgrounds going to university has increased significantly over time, the gap in the HE participation rate between richer and poorer students remains stark (Blanden and Machin, 2004, 2008; Blanden et al., 2005; Crawford et al., 2016b).”
Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data (2008, background): “E-mail: A.Vignoles@ioe.ac.uk appears to have worsened in England during the 1980s and early 1990s by some measures (Blanden and Machin, 2004; Galindo-Rueda et al., 2004; Glennerster, 2001; Machin and Vignoles, 2004), and the prevailing policy discussion continues to stress the need to ‘widen’…”
Parental background and university dropout in Italy (2013, background): “The empirical evidence of substantial differences in university enrolment rates across family income classes suggests that income inequalities across generations and ethnic groups may be widening (see Blossfeld and Shavit 1993; Blanden and Machin 2004; Galindo-Rueda and Vignoles 2005).”
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany – The Last Five Decades (2007, background): “The issue raised attention in the United Kingdom where Blanden et al. (2003), Blanden and Machin (2004), and Machin and Vignoles (2004) analysed changes in the correlation between parental relative income position and child educational outcomes.”
Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement (2016, background): “…to different conclusions as to the strength in inheritance, thereby providing grounds for both an academic and a political debate over the importance of socioeconomic background (e.g. Blanden, Gregg, & Macmillan, 2013; Blanden & Machin, 2004; Erikson & Goldthorpe, 2010; Goldthorpe & Jackson, 2007).”
Earnings Returns to the British Education Expansion. (2011, background): “Machin (2007) and Blanden and Machin (2004) show that the expansion of UK higher education since the 1960s predominantly benefited children from high-income families.”