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New Working Paper

LIFETRACK has published a new paper analyzing how educational tracking impacts social mobility, using longitudinal data from seven different countries. For more information, please visit us at the Dynamics of Inequality Across the Lifecourse (DIAL) website.

Call for Contributions

Special issue of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility on “Mechanisms of Educational Stratification”, guest edited by Steffen Schindler and Vikki Boliver. The submission deadline for contributions is 31 October 2020.

Country Reports

LIFETRACK has now published the reports about the education system of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and England. For more information visit us at the transnational research program “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course: structures and processes” (DIAL).

New DIAL Podcast

Jesper Fels Birkelund talks in a new DIAL Podcast about his research looking at the educational aspirations and achievements of the children of immigrants in Denmark. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aiming-high-and-missing-the-mark/id1451938490?i=1000468089941

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May 14, 2021

In their new article, #CarloBarone, @MorisTriventi & #MartaFacchini look at the long-term effects of pupils’ choices between academic and vocational tracks at age 14 in Italy. Read about their interesting findings here: https://bit.ly/33FqLBf.

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May 20, 2021

In their new article, @birkelund_jf et al. analyse how selective schooling in Denmark and the UK affected the lifetime earnings of people born in the 1950s. Read more about their findings here: https://bit.ly/3f0QgmX.

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May 10, 2021

What is the lifetime earnings return to attending a selective grammar school/realskole? Surprisingly small in UK, larger in DK. Very happy to have new paper out in @BJSociology with great team @queraltcm @VikkiBoliver @kbkarlson. Funded by @NORFACE_network https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.12856

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