Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children.
Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same cohort. This study makes a novel contribution by exploring whether the expansion of university education among parents affects their children's academic a...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 168 - 190 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2026
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