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Title Determined to succeed? [electronic resource] : performance versus choice in educational attainment / edited by Michelle Jackson.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Description xvi, 347 p. : ill.
Series Studies in social inequality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : how is inequality of educational opportunity generated? : the case for primary and secondary effects / Michelle Jackson -- Primary and secondary effects : some methodological issues / Christiana Kartsonaki, Michelle Jackson and David R. Cox -- Inequality in transitions to secondary school and tertiary education in Germany / Martin Neugebauer, David Reimer, Steffen Schindler and Volker Stocke -- How social background affects educational attainment over time in the Netherlands / Charlotte Buchner and Rolf van der Velden -- Academic achievement, tracking decisions and their relative contribution to educational inequalities : change over four decades in France / Mathieu Ichou and Louis-Andre Vallet -- Social origin inequalities in educational careers in Italy : performance or decision effects? / Dalit Contini and Andrea Scagni -- Ever declining inequalities? : transitions to upper secondary and tertiary education in Sweden, for the 1972-1990 birth cohorts / Frida Rudolphi -- Dentist, driver, or dropout? : family background and secondary education choices in Denmark / Anders Holm and Mads Meier Jaeger -- Social background and educational transitions in England / Michelle Jackson -- Class origins, high school graduation, and college entry in the United States / Stephen L. Morgan, Michael W. Spiller and Jennifer J. Todd -- Why does inequality of educational opportunity vary across countries? : primary and secondary effects in comparative context / Michelle Jackson and Jan O. Jonsson.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Educational equalization -- Cross-cultural studies.
Educational attainment -- Cross-cultural studies.
Academic achievement -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jackson, Michelle Victoria.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804783026 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804783020
9780804784481 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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