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dc.contributor.authorPASSARETTA, Giampiero
dc.contributor.authorSKOPEK, Jan
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T11:50:49Z
dc.date.available2022-01-11T11:50:49Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationAmerican sociological review, 2021, Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 1017-1042en
dc.identifier.issn0003-1224
dc.identifier.issn1939-8271
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73566
dc.descriptionPublished online: 1 November 2021en
dc.description.abstractDoes schooling affect socioeconomic inequality in educational achievement? Earlier studies based on seasonal comparisons suggest schooling can equalize social gaps in learning. Yet recent replication studies have given rise to skepticism about the validity of older findings. We shed new light on the debate by estimating the causal effect of 1st-grade schooling on achievement inequality by socioeconomic family background in Germany. We elaborate a differential exposure approach that estimates the effect of exposure to 1st-grade schooling by exploiting (conditionally) random variation in test dates and birth dates for children who entered school on the same calendar day. We use recent data from the German NEPS to test school-exposure effects for a series of learning domains. Findings clearly indicate that 1st-grade schooling increases children’s learning in all domains. However, we do not find any evidence that these schooling effects differ by children’s socioeconomic background. We conclude that, although all children gain from schooling, schooling has no consequences for social inequality in learning. We discuss the relevance of our findings for sociological knowledge on the role of schooling in the process of stratification and highlight how our approach complements seasonal comparison studies.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican sociological reviewen
dc.titleDoes schooling decrease socioeconomic inequality in early achievement? : a differential exposure approachen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00031224211049188
dc.identifier.volume86en
dc.identifier.startpage1017en
dc.identifier.endpage1042en
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dc.identifier.issue6en


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