Irena Pietrzyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 361289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irena Pietrzyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irena |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietrzyk |
| SIGNATURE | PIETRZYK I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3444-1539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Treatment Prevalence Matters: Overcoming a Blind Spot in Experimental Inequality Research
Experimental methods increasingly inform sociological inequality research; however, a blind spot often remains when experimental findings are translated into group-level disparities. This article addresses treatment prevalence—the proportion of individuals within different groups who receive a given treatment outside the experimental setting—as a largely overlooked parameter linking experimental treatment effects to macro-level inequality pattern…
Same but different: Gender, social origin, and university access. Results from a field experiment on guidance counseling
Guidance Counseling Can Reduce Inequality in University Enrollment in Germany: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Guidance counseling is well known to foster enrollment in higher education among students from low social origins in the United States and Canada. However, because students in these North American countries face obstacles that do not exist in many European countries, generalizing previous findings to the European context is difficult. Against this background, we use a randomized controlled trial to investigate guidance counseling in Germany. Our …
The impact of guidance counselling on gender segregation: Major choice and persistence in higher education. An experimental study
Gender segregation in higher education is considered one of the main drivers of persistent economic gender inequality. Yet, though there has been considerable research identifying and describing the underlying mechanisms that cause gendered educational choices in higher education, little is known about how gender segregation in higher education could be changed. Accordingly, this article aims to determine the potential of educational intervention…
Done with a degree? Immigration-specific disparities among holders of bachelor’s degrees in the transition to graduate studies in Germany
In many Western societies, immigrants make more ambitious educational choices than their native counterparts of equal academic achievement and social origin. These ambitious decisions have been mainly observed at early and middle educational stages, whereas research on choices within higher education is scarce. Against this background, we investigate whether immigrants make more ambitious decisions than natives do also after having graduated from…
Who Benefits from Guidance Counseling? Insights into Native and Immigrant Students of Low Social Origin
Research on educational inequalities has increasingly focused on interventions to increase enrollment in higher education for students of low social origin. However, students of low social origin may not be homogeneous in their need for advice, as natives of low social origin decide less frequently to enter university than their immigrant counterparts in many European countries. Drawing on data from a randomized controlled trial in German schools…
Do Intensive Guidance Programs Reduce Social Inequality in the Transition to Higher Education? Results of a Field Experiment
This paper examines the effect of an intensive counseling program to promote college access of students who are eligible for college. Using data from an experimental panel study, we examine the average effect on university enrollment directly after high school graduation and the effect heterogeneity by educational background. No positive effect of participation is found. We discuss these results in relation to the potential of reducing inequaliti…
Investigating the impact of interventions on educational disparities: Estimating average treatment effects (ATEs) is not sufficient
Hochschulabsolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund am Übergang in die Promotion
Bislang wurden Fragen nach dem Bildungserfolg von Lernenden mit Migrationshintergrund vor allem für niedrigere und mittlere Bildungsabschnitte untersucht. Vor dem Hintergrund einer gestiegenen soziostrukturellen Relevanz von migrationsbezogenen Disparitäten innerhalb der Hochschulbildung untersuchen wir erstmalig, ob und aufgrund welcher Mechanismen Besonderheiten von Absolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Aufnahme einer Promotion beste…
Guidance Counseling Can Reduce Inequality in University Enrollment in Germany: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Guidance counseling is well known to foster enrollment in higher education among students from low social origins in the United States and Canada. However, because students in these North American countries face obstacles that do not exist in many European countries, generalizing previous findings to the European context is difficult. Against this background, we use a randomized controlled trial to investigate guidance counseling in Germany. Our …
Investigating the impact of interventions on educational disparities: Estimating average treatment effects (ATEs) is not sufficient
Hochschulabsolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund am Übergang in die Promotion
Bislang wurden Fragen nach dem Bildungserfolg von Lernenden mit Migrationshintergrund vor allem für niedrigere und mittlere Bildungsabschnitte untersucht. Vor dem Hintergrund einer gestiegenen soziostrukturellen Relevanz von migrationsbezogenen Disparitäten innerhalb der Hochschulbildung untersuchen wir erstmalig, ob und aufgrund welcher Mechanismen Besonderheiten von Absolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Aufnahme einer Promotion beste…
Investigating the impact of interventions on educational disparities: Estimating average treatment effects (ATEs) is not sufficient
Hochschulabsolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund am Übergang in die Promotion
Bislang wurden Fragen nach dem Bildungserfolg von Lernenden mit Migrationshintergrund vor allem für niedrigere und mittlere Bildungsabschnitte untersucht. Vor dem Hintergrund einer gestiegenen soziostrukturellen Relevanz von migrationsbezogenen Disparitäten innerhalb der Hochschulbildung untersuchen wir erstmalig, ob und aufgrund welcher Mechanismen Besonderheiten von Absolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Aufnahme einer Promotion beste…
Do Intensive Guidance Programs Reduce Social Inequality in the Transition to Higher Education? Results of a Field Experiment
This paper examines the effect of an intensive counseling program to promote college access of students who are eligible for college. Using data from an experimental panel study, we examine the average effect on university enrollment directly after high school graduation and the effect heterogeneity by educational background. No positive effect of participation is found. We discuss these results in relation to the potential of reducing inequaliti…
The impact of guidance counselling on gender segregation: Major choice and persistence in higher education. An experimental study
Gender segregation in higher education is considered one of the main drivers of persistent economic gender inequality. Yet, though there has been considerable research identifying and describing the underlying mechanisms that cause gendered educational choices in higher education, little is known about how gender segregation in higher education could be changed. Accordingly, this article aims to determine the potential of educational intervention…
Done with a degree? Immigration-specific disparities among holders of bachelor’s degrees in the transition to graduate studies in Germany
In many Western societies, immigrants make more ambitious educational choices than their native counterparts of equal academic achievement and social origin. These ambitious decisions have been mainly observed at early and middle educational stages, whereas research on choices within higher education is scarce. Against this background, we investigate whether immigrants make more ambitious decisions than natives do also after having graduated from…
Who Benefits from Guidance Counseling? Insights into Native and Immigrant Students of Low Social Origin
Research on educational inequalities has increasingly focused on interventions to increase enrollment in higher education for students of low social origin. However, students of low social origin may not be homogeneous in their need for advice, as natives of low social origin decide less frequently to enter university than their immigrant counterparts in many European countries. Drawing on data from a randomized controlled trial in German schools…
Same but different: Gender, social origin, and university access. Results from a field experiment on guidance counseling
Guidance Counseling Can Reduce Inequality in University Enrollment in Germany: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Guidance counseling is well known to foster enrollment in higher education among students from low social origins in the United States and Canada. However, because students in these North American countries face obstacles that do not exist in many European countries, generalizing previous findings to the European context is difficult. Against this background, we use a randomized controlled trial to investigate guidance counseling in Germany. Our …
Why Treatment Prevalence Matters: Overcoming a Blind Spot in Experimental Inequality Research
Experimental methods increasingly inform sociological inequality research; however, a blind spot often remains when experimental findings are translated into group-level disparities. This article addresses treatment prevalence—the proportion of individuals within different groups who receive a given treatment outside the experimental setting—as a largely overlooked parameter linking experimental treatment effects to macro-level inequality pattern…
Economics (6 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social inequality (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Higher education (3 works)