The Structure of Educational Decision Making and Consequences for Inequality: A Swedish Test Case.
Class differences in educational decision making are important for inequality. A unique Swedish population-level database of university applications and individuals' ranking of different programs is used to analyze class differences in preferences for different program characteristics. Compared to i...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Sociology Vol. 116; no. 3; pp. 806 - 855 |
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University of Chicago Press
November 2010
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