Dalit Contini and Andrea Scagni
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804783026
- eISBN:
- 9780804784481
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783026.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter, which uses statistical techniques to deal with sample-selection problems in order to determine the relative importance of primary and secondary effects in creating inequalities in ...
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This chapter, which uses statistical techniques to deal with sample-selection problems in order to determine the relative importance of primary and secondary effects in creating inequalities in Italy, considers the influence of parental class and education in creating inequalities in the transitions to upper secondary and tertiary education. It finds that there are very large inequalities related to social background, at both the level of upper secondary and tertiary education. Only a minority of children from the lowest backgrounds enroll in the academic track. Although all upper secondary school degrees provide access to university, completion of the academic track is a strong predictor of tertiary-education enrollment. Therefore, inequality at early stages of the school career carries over to university participation.Less
This chapter, which uses statistical techniques to deal with sample-selection problems in order to determine the relative importance of primary and secondary effects in creating inequalities in Italy, considers the influence of parental class and education in creating inequalities in the transitions to upper secondary and tertiary education. It finds that there are very large inequalities related to social background, at both the level of upper secondary and tertiary education. Only a minority of children from the lowest backgrounds enroll in the academic track. Although all upper secondary school degrees provide access to university, completion of the academic track is a strong predictor of tertiary-education enrollment. Therefore, inequality at early stages of the school career carries over to university participation.
