First generation elite: The role of school networks

Arbeitspapier

High school students from non-elite backgrounds are less likely to have peers with elite educated parents than their elite counterparts in Norway. We show this difference in social capital is a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education. We identify a positive elite peer effect on enrolment in elite programmes and disentangle underlying mechanisms. Exploiting a lottery in the assessment system, a causal mediation analysis shows the overall positive peer effect reflects a positive effect on application behaviour (conditional on GPA), which dominates a negative effect on student GPA. We consider implications for income mobility finding that encouraging further mixing between elite and non-elite students in high school could improve mobility across the whole distribution.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. 23/18

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Thema: Peers ; Elite university ; Subject choice ; Social mobility ; Teacher bias

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cattan, Sarah ; Salvanes, Kjell G. ; Tominey, Emma
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• (wo): London
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2023.1823
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/284244
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ