Educational Transitions and Educational Inequality

A Multiple Pathways Sequential Logit Model Analysis of Finnish Birth Cohorts 1960-1985

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2234769
AutoresJ Harkonen (0000-0001-9687-1932, European University Institute, autor de correspondencia), Outi Sirniö (0000-0001-9857-6865, Stockholm University)
Año2020
Volumen36
Número5
Páginas700-719
Fecha de publicación2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/esr/jcaa019
OpenAlexW3039515224
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas42

We developed a multiple pathways sequential logit model for analysing social background inequality in completed education and applied it to analyse educational inequality in Finland (birth cohorts 1960-1985). Our model builds on the sequential logit model for educational transitions, originally presented by Robert D. Mare and later extended by Maarten Buis, which disaggregates inequality in completed education into the weighted sum of inequalities in the transitions leading to it. Although the educational transitions framework is popular among educational stratification researchers, its applications have almost exclusively focused on analysing inequalities in separate educational transitions. Buis presented a unifying model of inequalities in educational transitions and completed education, which gives a substantive interpretation to the weights that link them. We applied this to an educational system in which the same educational outcomes can be reached through multiple pathways. Our analysis of Finnish register data shows that intergenerational educational persistence increased, particularly among women. The main reasons are increased inequality in academic upper-secondary (gymnasium) completion and gymnasium expansion that increased the weight of this transition as well as of the transition to university. We discuss the integration of structural and allocative mechanisms in educational stratification research

Allocative efficiency · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Educational inequality · Inequality · Logit · Microeconomics · Social inequality · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Social Policy and Reform Studies