We review the comparative literature on the impact of national-level educational institutions
on inequality in student achievement. We focus on two types of institutions that characterize …

Because demographic shifts will affect their labor forces in the immediate future, rich
societies will have to face up to the challenge of integrating the children of low-status …

Educational systems with a high level of tracking and vocational orientation have been
shown to improve the allocation of school-leavers in the labor market. However, tracked …

In this paper, student-level indicators of opportunity to learn (OTL) included in the 2012
Programme for International Student Assessment are used to explore the joint relationship of …

Nicht zuletzt die internationalen Schulleistungsstudien haben den Handlungsbedarf
offensichtlich gemacht: In Deutschland spielt die Herkunft für den Schulerfolg eine …

Tracked educational systems are associated with greater social inequality in children's
educational achievement. Until now, research has assumed that the impact of tracking on …

BACKGROUND In this paper we study the long-term consequences of parental divorce in a
comparative perspective. Special attention is paid to the heterogeneity of the consequences …

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …

This book investigates the changing opportunities in higher education for different social
groups during China's transition from the socialist regime to a market economy. The first part …

In a recent paper, Reardon found that the relationship between family income and children's
academic achievement grew substantially stronger in the 1980s and 1990s in the United …