Educational expectations in the great recession: has the impact of family background become stronger?

Autor/inn/en	Salazar, Leire; Cebolla-Boado, Héctor; Radl, Jonas
Titel	Educational expectations in the great recession: has the impact of family background become stronger?
Quelle	In: Socio-economic review, 18 (2020) 2, S. 465-491 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1475-147X
DOI	10.1093/ser/mwy046
Schlagwörter	Bildungszugang; Soziale Herkunft; Bildungsabschluss; Schulleistung; Ungleichheit; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Rezession; Wirtschaftskrise; Wirtschaftswachstum; Internationaler Vergleich; Jugendlicher
Abstract	This article addresses the impact of economic climate, and particularly of the Great Recession, on the configuration of educational expectations among students around 14 years old. We analyze expectations regarding educational attainment conditional on school performance and compare our results across countries with varying levels of economic growth over time. We expect a changing economic environment to impact on (a) the average level of educational expectations, (b) the association between social background and expectations, and (c) the association between school grades and expectations. Using pooled data from TIMSS for the years 2003, 2007 and 2011 among 8th graders for 24 developed countries, we estimate a set of country-fixed effects and hierarchical random-slope linear regression models. Most notably, our results indicate that economic down times depress educational expectations, especially among average-performing students, and lead to a growth in educational inequalities by family background.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2022/3