M Jæger M
Biographic Data
| ID | 15229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Jæger M |
| GIVEN NAMES | M M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jæger |
| SIGNATURE | M M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3666-8398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1265 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
You are where you eat: Restaurant characteristics, genre moldability, and perceptions of customers
Socialite or sociable? Highbrow tastes, omnivorous inclinations, and perceptions of individuals’ status and qualities
Sociologists argue that cultural tastes shape perceptions of individuals’ status and personal qualities. Yet it remains unclear whether highbrow and omnivorous tastes create different perceptions. To address this gap, we designed two vignette survey experiments to identify the effect of highbrow (vs. lowbrow) and omnivorous (vs. univorous) tastes on a wide range of perceptions. Results for Denmark, replicated in two experiments, show that while h…
Dissecting Taste Distinction: Cultural Tastes and Perceptions of Individuals’ Status and Qualities
A rich literature in sociology argues that familiarity with legitimate culture creates favorable perceptions of individuals’ status and qualities, which in turn yield privilege. Yet, it remains unclear which tastes affect what perceptions by how much. To address these important questions, we designed a survey experiment in Denmark that “dissects” and quantifies the effect of individuals’ tastes across six taste domains (music, food, performing ar…
Cultured Means Connected? The Effect of Cultural Tastes on Social Capital
Theory proposes that more legitimate cultural tastes can be converted into social capital. Yet, existing research is ill‐suited for supporting a causal interpretation of the effect of cultural capital on social capital and often measures social connections (whom you know) rather than social capital (the resources you can extract from the people you know). To address these limitations, we use three‐generation data from Denmark, three complementary…
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few dimensions of stratification. To address these limitations, we analyse registry data on library borrowing for the entire adult population of Denmark and consider four dimensions of social stratification: wealth, education, income, and occupation. We find considerable social stratification in library borrow…
From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities
Theories of cultural stratification argue that a widely shared cultural hierarchy legitimizes status differences and inequality. Yet, we know little about this hierarchy empirically. To address this limitation, we collected survey data in Denmark and asked respondents to rate the implied social rank of 60 activities, genres, and objects belonging to six lifestyle domains (music, food, performing arts, leisure, sport, and literature). We use ratin…
Response to: ‘Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality’: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger
In this rejoinder, we engage in the discussion raised by Yastrebov (2023) about the assumptions in the theoretical models in Holm et al. (2019) and how the implications of the theory are handled. Our original model proposes that students use signals about academic ability to make inferences about the costs and benefits of different educational options. In particular, we propose that when low-socioeconomic status (SES) student receives a negative …
Family learning environments in Scandinavia: Dimensions, types and socioeconomic profiles
In this paper, we use data from 44 Danish families to develop a new conceptual framework for analysing family learning environments and how they shape children’s opportunities in the Scandinavian context. We use data from qualitative interviews and a new smartphone app to outline six key dimensions of family learning environments that intersect in four types, which we label Expansive curators, Recreational home dwellers, Casual pragmatists and Di…
No substitute for the real thing? Physical and digital cultural participation in Denmark during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this research note, we analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural participation. We use rich survey data from Denmark to construct pooled time-series cross-sectional data for each month of the years 2019-2021 and report three findings. First, participation in physical cultural activities (e.g. attending a concert or a museum) plummeted during two lockdowns and did not return to its pre-pandemic level by the end of 2021. Second, pa…
Looking for It in Genetix”: Response to Comment
The authors make a number of critical comments on our research objectives, indicators of cultural tastes, and methods and interpretations of empirical results.We address these comments in detail below.Our overall response is that the authors either misunderstand or misrepresent what we say and rehash a number of generic criticisms of twin studies.Moreover, the authors seem not be aware that many of the criticisms they raise (e.g., the assumed dic…
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality
Research on cultural stratification often draws on Bourdieu's misrecognition model to interpret socioeconomic gradients in cultural tastes and participation. In this model, an assumed cultural hierarchy leads individuals to adopt cultural tastes and behaviours whose status is congruent with that of their socioeconomic position (SEP). Yet, this assumed cultural hierarchy remains opaque. In this paper, we derive and test three empirical implication…
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality
Although research shows that highbrow tastes correlate positively with network quality, we know little about why. We hypothesize that individuals need to manifest their highbrow tastes socially, for example via conversations about, or shared participation in, highbrow culture with network ties, for these tastes to enhance network quality and stability. To address this hypothesis empirically, we collected panel data in the Netherlands with informa…
Where Do Cultural Tastes Come From? Genes, Environments, or Experiences
Theories in sociology argue that family background and individual experiences shape cultural tastes and participation. Yet, we do not know the relative importance of each explanation or the extent to which family background operates via shared genes or shared environments. In this article, we use new data on same-sex monozygotic and dizygotic twins from Denmark to estimate the total impact of family background (genetic and environmental) and indi…
Family background and cultural lifestyles: Multigenerational associations
Local historical context and multigenerational socioeconomic attainment
Inequality in learning opportunities during Covid-19: Evidence from library takeout
Family Size and Educational Attainment: Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation
How does cultural capital affect educational performance: Signals or skills
In this paper, we test two mechanisms through which cultural capital might affect educational performance: (a) teachers misinterpreting cultural capital as signals of academic brilliance and (b) cultural capital fostering skills in children that enhance educational performance. We analyse data from the ECLS-K and ECLS-K:2011 from the United States and focus on three aspects of children's cultural capital: participation in performing arts, reading…
Hello Beautiful? The Effect of Interviewer Physical Attractiveness on Cooperation Rates and Survey Responses
This article analyzes the effect of interviewers’ physical attractiveness on cooperation rates in face-to-face interviews and survey responses (self-reports on physical appearance, weight, and health). This article includes four aspects of physical attractiveness (facial attractiveness, voice attractiveness, body mass index [BMI], and height) and reports that (1) interviewers with more attractive faces and lower BMI have higher cooperation rates,…
Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality
We propose a model of educational decision-making based on rational choice theory in which students use signals about academic ability to make inference about the costs and benefits of different educational options. Our model is simple, extends ideas from previous models, and has testable implications. We test our model using data on Danish monozygotic twins and find that (i) students who receive a positive signal about their academic ability hav…
Religion and aggregate support for redistribution
Aggregated data on regions within countries have been used to analyze the effect of religion and religiosity on aggregate support for redistribution. The data are from the International Social Survey Programme and a panel data set was constructed at the level of regions that were observed several times over the period 1985-2010. Empirical analyses show that a higher share of Catholics within a region has a positive effect on aggregate support for…
Cultural Capital and Educational Inequality: A Counterfactual Analysis
We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) data and a counterfactual approach to test the macro-level implications of cultural reproduction and cultural mobility theory. Our counterfactual analyses show that the observed socioeconomic gradient in children’s educational attainment in the NLSY79 data would be smaller if cultural capital was more equally distributed between children whose parents are of low socioeconomic status (SES)…
Cultural capital, teacher bias, and educational success: New evidence from monozygotic twins
In this paper we use new data on Danish monozygotic (MZ) twins to analyze the effect of cultural capital on educational success. We report three main findings. First, cultural capital has a positive direct effect on the likelihood of completing the college-bound track in Danish secondary education. Second, cultural capital leads teachers to form upwardly biased perceptions of children's academic ability, but only when their exposure to children's…
A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction
The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational and socioeconomic success. The authors' approach brings conceptual and empirical clarity to an important area of study. Their model describes how parents transmit cultural capital to their children and how children convert cultural capital into educational success. It…
What Makes People Support Public Responsibility for Welfare Provision: Self-interest or Political Ideology
This article investigates which socio-economic and ideological factors make individuals support the normative principles of the welfare state. Two principal theoretical perspectives, relating to self-interest and the political ideology, respectively, have been proposed in the literature as causal explanations. However, as most studies utilize solely cross-sectional data, causal interpretations of which factors make people express support for the …
Welfare Regimes and Attitudes Towards Redistribution: The Regime Hypothesis Revisited
This paper addresses the issue of why comparative research on welfare state attitudes has failed to establish a link between welfare regimes and popular support for redistribution. Several limitations in the existing literature regarding the dependent variable, the opera-tionalisation of welfare regimes, how the relationship between regimes and attitudes is identified, and the methods used are proposed as reasons why no link between regimes and a…
The Extended Family and Children's Educational Success
Research on family background and educational success focuses almost exclusively on two generations: parents and children. This study argues that the extended family contributes significantly to the total effect of family background on educational success. Analyses using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study show that, net of family factors shared by siblings from the same immediate family, factors shared by first cousins account for a nontrivial part…
The Effect of Terror on Institutional Trust: New Evidence from the 3/11 Madrid Terrorist Attack
Research from the United States suggests that the 9/11 terrorist attack increased trust in political institutions by creating a “rally effect.” In this research note we analyze Eurobarometer data collected immediately before and after the March 11, 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid to replicate and extend previous findings from the United States. We report that, first, trust in different types of institutions (political, media, justice) increased s…
A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction
The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational and socioeconomic success. The authors' approach brings conceptual and empirical clarity to an important area of study. Their model describes how parents transmit cultural capital to their children and how children convert cultural capital into educational success. It…
Does Cultural Capital Really Affect Academic Achievement? New Evidence from Combined Sibling and Panel Data
This article provides new estimates of the causal effect of cultural capital on academic achievement. The author analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Children and Young Adults and uses a fixed effect design to address the problem of omitted variable bias, which has resulted in too optimistic results in previous research. After controlling for family and individual fixed effects, the author reports that (1) six indicators o…
Equal Access but Unequal Outcomes: Cultural Capital and Educational Choice in a Meritocratic Society
This article argues that existing studies on cultural capital and educational success fail to distinguish the different channels through which cultural capital promotes educational success. Following Bourdieu, the article proposes that for cultural capital to promote educational success three conditions must hold: (1. parents must possess cultural capital, (2. they must transfer their cultural capital to children, and (3. children must absorb cul…
The effect of macroeconomic and social conditions on the demand for redistribution: A pseudo panel approach
This paper analyses the effect of macroeconomic and social conditions on the demand for redistribution. Using a synthetic cohort design to generate panel data at the level of socio-demographic groups, analysis of fives waves of data from the European Social Survey (2002–2010) shows that differences across countries in macroeconomic and social conditions have an effect on the demand for redistribution. Consistent with theoretical expectations, eco…
Does parents' economic, cultural, and social capital explain the social class effect on educational attainment in the Scandinavian mobility regime
Does Left-Right Orientation have a Causal Effect on Support for Redistribution? Causal Analysis with Cross-sectional Data Using Instrumental Variables
Journal Article Does Left–Right Orientation have a Causal Effect on Support for Redistribution? Causal Analysis with Cross-sectional Data Using Instrumental Variables Get access Mads Meier Jæger Mads Meier Jæger Mads Meier Jæger, PhD (Sociology), is a Senior Researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research. His research interests include public support for the welfare state, social inequality, and applied micro-econometrics. He has pu…
The effect of grandparents’ economic, cultural, and social capital on grandchildren's educational success
This paper analyzes the effects of grandparents’ economic, cultural, and social capital on grandchildren's educational success. We analyze data from Denmark and hypothesize that grandparents’ economic capital should be of little importance in the Scandinavian context, while their cultural and social capital should be relatively more important. Our results partly confirm these hypotheses since, after controlling for parents’ capital, we find that …
United But Divided: Welfare Regimes and the Level and Variance in Public Support for Redistribution
Previous studies find little evidence that welfare regimes affect public support for welfare state principles, policies, and programmes in any systematic way. This article argues that limitations in operational definitions of welfare regimes might explain why previous studies do not find any link between regimes and attitudes. Furthermore, the article suggests that welfare regimes should affect both mean levels of support for the welfare state an…
Deciding under Doubt: A Theory of Risk Aversion, Time Discounting Preferences, and Educational Decision-making
We develop a rational choice model of educational decision-making in which the utility of educational choices depends on students’ risk aversion and their time discounting preferences. We argue for the role of risk aversion and time discounting preferences in the choice of different tracks in secondary education and in mediating the impact of socioeconomic background on such choices. Enrolment decisions in Danish secondary education provide our e…
Cultural capital, teacher bias, and educational success: New evidence from monozygotic twins
In this paper we use new data on Danish monozygotic (MZ) twins to analyze the effect of cultural capital on educational success. We report three main findings. First, cultural capital has a positive direct effect on the likelihood of completing the college-bound track in Danish secondary education. Second, cultural capital leads teachers to form upwardly biased perceptions of children's academic ability, but only when their exposure to children's…
How does cultural capital affect educational performance: Signals or skills
In this paper, we test two mechanisms through which cultural capital might affect educational performance: (a) teachers misinterpreting cultural capital as signals of academic brilliance and (b) cultural capital fostering skills in children that enhance educational performance. We analyse data from the ECLS-K and ECLS-K:2011 from the United States and focus on three aspects of children's cultural capital: participation in performing arts, reading…
Does Relative Risk Aversion explain educational inequality? A dynamic choice approach
Inequality in learning opportunities during Covid-19: Evidence from library takeout
Educational Mobility Across Three Generations: The Changing Impact of Parental Social Class, Economic, Cultural and Social Capital
This article addresses why the literature on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEO) reaches diverging results concerning the decline or persistency of IEO over time. The main argument in this article is that the diverging results may be caused by the fact that the social class variables used to capture trends in IEO act as proxies for unobserved family-background influences that are substantively different from social class. The article anal…
Cultural capital in context: Heterogeneous returns to cultural capital across schooling environments
This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural capital across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital yields a higher returns in high-achieving environments than in low-achieving ones) and cultural mobility (cultural capital yields higher returns in low-achieving environments). Using multilevel mixture models, empirical results from analyses based on PISA data from three countries (Canada…
Top of the Pops, Ascend of the Omnivores, Defeat of the Couch Potatoes: Cultural Consumption Profiles in Denmark 1975-2004
This article presents a new approach to modelling change over time in cultural consumption practices, which jointly models qualitative heterogeneity in cultural consumption clusters, measured via latent classes, and quantitative heterogeneity in total cultural participation level within each latent class. We analyse cultural consumption practices in Denmark over the period 1975–2004 and identify four cultural consumption clusters. We document the…
Dealing with selection bias in educational transition models: The bivariate probit selection model
Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality
We propose a model of educational decision-making based on rational choice theory in which students use signals about academic ability to make inference about the costs and benefits of different educational options. Our model is simple, extends ideas from previous models, and has testable implications. We test our model using data on Danish monozygotic twins and find that (i) students who receive a positive signal about their academic ability hav…
Sibship size and educational attainment. A joint test of the Confluence Model and the Resource Dilution Hypothesis
Do Large Sibships Really Lead to Lower Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Variation in Couples' Reproductive Capacity
The Resource Dilution Hypothesis and related theories predict that sibship size has a negative causal effect on educational attainment. However, because sibship size is likely to be endogenous to children's schooling in the sense that parents who have many children also have other socio-economic characteristics that lead to low educational attainment, it is difficult to determine if sibship size actually has a negative effect on educational attai…
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality
Research on cultural stratification often draws on Bourdieu's misrecognition model to interpret socioeconomic gradients in cultural tastes and participation. In this model, an assumed cultural hierarchy leads individuals to adopt cultural tastes and behaviours whose status is congruent with that of their socioeconomic position (SEP). Yet, this assumed cultural hierarchy remains opaque. In this paper, we derive and test three empirical implication…
Pressures on State Welfare in Post‐industrial Societies: Is More or Less Better
Although contemporary comparative welfare state research has advanced our knowledge of how welfare states respond to exogenous and endogenous pressures, the nature and implications of these pressures themselves on post‐industrial societies remains somewhat unknown. In the research literature phenomena such as globalization, Europeanization, demographics, individualization and changing labour markets are often claimed to put considerable pressure …
Penge, (ud)dannelse, forbindelser eller brains: En test af fire forældreressourcers betydning for unges uddannelsesvalg i Danmark
Mads Meier Jæger og Anders Holm: Money, education, connections or brains? Testing the meaning of four parent resources for youth choice of education in Denmark The aim of this article is to analyse the effect of four types of social resources on young people’s educational choice. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “capital“, we distinguish four types of capital: economic, cultural, social, and cognitive, which are hypothesised to affect inte…
Kvantitative metoder i dansk sociologi
Welfare Regimes and Attitudes Towards Redistribution: The Regime Hypothesis Revisited
This paper addresses the issue of why comparative research on welfare state attitudes has failed to establish a link between welfare regimes and popular support for redistribution. Several limitations in the existing literature regarding the dependent variable, the opera-tionalisation of welfare regimes, how the relationship between regimes and attitudes is identified, and the methods used are proposed as reasons why no link between regimes and a…
What Makes People Support Public Responsibility for Welfare Provision: Self-interest or Political Ideology
This article investigates which socio-economic and ideological factors make individuals support the normative principles of the welfare state. Two principal theoretical perspectives, relating to self-interest and the political ideology, respectively, have been proposed in the literature as causal explanations. However, as most studies utilize solely cross-sectional data, causal interpretations of which factors make people express support for the …
Educational Mobility Across Three Generations: The Changing Impact of Parental Social Class, Economic, Cultural and Social Capital
This article addresses why the literature on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEO) reaches diverging results concerning the decline or persistency of IEO over time. The main argument in this article is that the diverging results may be caused by the fact that the social class variables used to capture trends in IEO act as proxies for unobserved family-background influences that are substantively different from social class. The article anal…
Economic and Social Returns To Educational Choices: Extending the Utility Function
Recent sociological rational choice theories argue that educational decisions are made with the objective of maximizing both economic and social returns to education. Economic returns are, for example, earnings, while social returns include the preservation of existing peer groups and social networks. In this article I develop a rational choice model of educational decision making in which both economic and social returns form the total expected …
Does parents' economic, cultural, and social capital explain the social class effect on educational attainment in the Scandinavian mobility regime
Livsformer i Danmark: Udbredelse og udviklingstendenser 1981-2005
I denne artikel undersøger vi en række forhold omkring Thomas Højrups livsformsanalyse. For det første undersøger vi, om livsformerne kan spores empirisk i den danske befolkning. For det andet undersøger vi forandringer i livsformernes kvantitative udbredelse i Danmark i perioden 1981-2005. For det tredje efterprøver vi Højrups hypotese om livsformscentrisme, som tilsiger, at individer er bærere af én og ikke flere livsformer. Vores empiriske ana…
Does Left-Right Orientation have a Causal Effect on Support for Redistribution? Causal Analysis with Cross-sectional Data Using Instrumental Variables
Journal Article Does Left–Right Orientation have a Causal Effect on Support for Redistribution? Causal Analysis with Cross-sectional Data Using Instrumental Variables Get access Mads Meier Jæger Mads Meier Jæger Mads Meier Jæger, PhD (Sociology), is a Senior Researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research. His research interests include public support for the welfare state, social inequality, and applied micro-econometrics. He has pu…
Does Relative Risk Aversion explain educational inequality? A dynamic choice approach
Do Large Sibships Really Lead to Lower Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Variation in Couples' Reproductive Capacity
The Resource Dilution Hypothesis and related theories predict that sibship size has a negative causal effect on educational attainment. However, because sibship size is likely to be endogenous to children's schooling in the sense that parents who have many children also have other socio-economic characteristics that lead to low educational attainment, it is difficult to determine if sibship size actually has a negative effect on educational attai…
Quo Vadis? Forskningens kvalitet og kvantitet
Sibship size and educational attainment. A joint test of the Confluence Model and the Resource Dilution Hypothesis
United But Divided: Welfare Regimes and the Level and Variance in Public Support for Redistribution
Previous studies find little evidence that welfare regimes affect public support for welfare state principles, policies, and programmes in any systematic way. This article argues that limitations in operational definitions of welfare regimes might explain why previous studies do not find any link between regimes and attitudes. Furthermore, the article suggests that welfare regimes should affect both mean levels of support for the welfare state an…
Equal Access but Unequal Outcomes: Cultural Capital and Educational Choice in a Meritocratic Society
This article argues that existing studies on cultural capital and educational success fail to distinguish the different channels through which cultural capital promotes educational success. Following Bourdieu, the article proposes that for cultural capital to promote educational success three conditions must hold: (1. parents must possess cultural capital, (2. they must transfer their cultural capital to children, and (3. children must absorb cul…
The Rise of the Eclectic Cultural Consumer in Denmark, 1964-2004
Existing research on cultural stratification and consumption patterns rarely presents a cross-time comparative perspective and rarely goes back before the 1980s. This article employs a unique series of surveys on cultural participation collected in Denmark over the period 1964-2004 to map the historical development of three distinct cultural consumption groups (eclectic, moderate, limited) also identified in previous research. We report two major…
Do we all (dis)like the same welfare state? Configurations of public support for the welfare state in comparative perspective
Does equality in outcomes lead to a preference for equality? This chapter introduces a new approach to study popular support for the welfare state that focuses on qualitative different configurations of welfare state attitudes rather than purely quantitative attitudinal differences dominant in previous research. It identifies three types of latent welfare attitudes. The results suggest that people's welfare attitudes cluster into well-defined gro…
Das Kapitals(s): Fordelingen af kapitalformerne i Danmark
Kassen, kulturen og kontakterne: Økonomisk, kulturel og social kapital i to generationer
I denne artikel analyserer vi sammenhængen mellem økonomisk, kulturel og social kapital inden for og mellem to generationer af danskere født omkring 1930 og 1954. Vi analyserer data fra Ungdomsforløbsundersøgelsen og benytter konfirmativ faktoranalyse til at konstruere latente variable for de tre kapitalformer i begge generationer. Analysen viser, for det første, at der i begge generationer er en markant sammenhæng mellem respondenternes beholdni…
"A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever"? Returns to Physical Attractiveness over the Life Course
This article analyzes the effect of three aspects of physical attractiveness (facial attractiveness, Body Mass Index and height) on socio-economic and marital success over the life course. In a sample of high school graduates from Wisconsin followed from their late teens and until their mid-60s, I find that (1. taller men have higher earnings than shorter men throughout their careers, (2. women with more attractive faces and women with lower Body…
Dealing with selection bias in educational transition models: The bivariate probit selection model
Does Cultural Capital Really Affect Academic Achievement? New Evidence from Combined Sibling and Panel Data
This article provides new estimates of the causal effect of cultural capital on academic achievement. The author analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Children and Young Adults and uses a fixed effect design to address the problem of omitted variable bias, which has resulted in too optimistic results in previous research. After controlling for family and individual fixed effects, the author reports that (1) six indicators o…
Conformists or rebels? Relative risk aversion, educational decisions and social class reproduction
This paper tests the theory of Relative Risk Aversion (RRA), which argues that educational decisions are intended to minimize the risk of downward social class mobility. We propose a structural model which distinguishes the instantaneous utility of educational decisions from the future utility of these decisions with respect to reproducing one’s parents’ social class position. We analyse British data and find that RRA accounts for some of the obs…
The Extended Family and Children's Educational Success
Research on family background and educational success focuses almost exclusively on two generations: parents and children. This study argues that the extended family contributes significantly to the total effect of family background on educational success. Analyses using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study show that, net of family factors shared by siblings from the same immediate family, factors shared by first cousins account for a nontrivial part…
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