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Code: The institutional dimension of class-based educational decision-making: Evidence from regional variation in Switzerland.

Combet, Benita
GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1921
Abstract: This article examines to what extent specific institutional arrangement of an education system moderates the influence of social background on students’ track allocation, and whether this happens via primary or secondary effects of social origin. I tackle the problem of omitted-variable bias by analyzing subnational education systems in Switzerland, a country with a variety of cantonal school systems but otherwise homogeneous institutions. The results show a complex picture. First, even though the absolute transition probability to the highest track is higher in education systems with low stra ... more
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Subject area: [Sociology of Education]
Topics: Switzerland

Methodology

Geographic coverage: [Switzerland / CH]
Temporal Research Design: cross-section

Bibliographic information

Primärforschende, Institution: Combet, Benita; Universität München
Publication year: 2019
DOI: 10.7802/1921
Study number: SDN-10.7802-1921
Contributor, Institution, Role: [GESIS Datenarchiv für Sozialwissenschaften (Vertrieb)]
Publisher: GESIS, Cologne

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Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1921

Reference publications

Reference publication: Combet Benita, 2019: The institutional dimension of class-based educational decision-making: Evidence from regional variation in Switzerland. Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 48: 301–320. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2019-0021
Journal name: Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Journal volume: 2019
Issue number: 48/4

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Combet, Benita (2019). Code: The institutional dimension of class-based educational decision-making: Evidence from regional variation in Switzerland.. GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1921.

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