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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...

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Published in:American Journal of Sociology Vol. 116; no. 3; pp. 806 - 855
Main Author: Hällsten, Martin
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press November 2010
Subjects:
Decision making
Education
Higher education & economics
Equality
Unemployment
Wages
Higher education
Social classes
Sweden
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost