This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

The quickly growth of the (quasi-) experimental literature on policy interventions in higher
education provides an opportunity to identify the causal effects of these interventions on …

Based on the life design paradigm and career construction adaptation model and on recent
directions from the perspective of sustainable and inclusive career guidance, the study …

This work presents a direct empirical test of the Breen–Goldthorpe (BG) rational choice
model applied to social inequalities in access to university in Italy. In particular, we assess to …

This study develops and tests the hypothesis that information biases concerning the
perceived extent of risk of educational options fuel social inequalities in track choice. In …

The large proportion of dropout students from higher education has become a major
concern in many industrialized countries. Despite consistent evidence of the association …

El artículo analiza la configuración y reconfiguración de las expectativas educativas de los
jóvenes a los 15 años. Los antecedentes se basan en las aportaciones culturalistas de …

This report reviews evidence on intergenerational mobility and the transmission of
socioeconomic advantages from parents to children. The review examines conceptual …

This paper presents a large-scale field experiment assessing the impact of an intervention
providing evidence-based information about costs and returns to higher education …

In this work, we investigate whether grants improve the academic outcomes of students from
socio-economically disadvantaged families and thereby reduce inequalities of educational …