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Educational Expansion and Field of Study: Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Inequality in the Netherlands
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Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Tolsma, Jochem; Wolbers, Maarten H. J. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
In this paper we study to what extent parental field of study affects a person's educational level and field of study. We employ information on 8800 respondents from the Family Survey Dutch Population (1992-2009). Our results first of all show that, over the last five decades, economic fields of study have become more fashionable among men. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis