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- Title
SOCIAL BACKGROUND, EDUCATION, AND INEQUALITY.
- Authors
Andersen, Torben M.
- Abstract
The role parents' education plays for the educational achievements of children is a source of unequal opportunities. Through this channel the number of educated affects the options of future cohorts, creating a social multiplier effect making improvements in education self‐reinforcing. Policies to compensate for inequalities of opportunities—public education or transfers—have very different implications. Transfers not only reduce inequality on impact but also reduce social mobility, while public education—even if a perfect substitute to private education—works in the opposite direction. Social impediments to education are similar to a market imperfection, and publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of parents; ACADEMIC achievement; PUBLIC education; PRIVATE education; SOCIAL background
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 2019, Vol 57, Issue 3, p1441
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecin.12778