School tracking has been introduced as a means to provide skills the labor market demands,
and as such has been in place for several decades in most Organisation for Economic Co …

Graduate and professional education play an increasingly important role in economic
inequality and elite formation in the United States, but sociologists have not subjected …

China's civil examination system (keju), an incredibly long-lived institution, has a persistent
impact on human capital outcomes today. Using the variation in the density of jinshi—the …

There has been renewed policy interest in intergenerational social mobility as a route to a
fairer society, but in ignoring the sociological evidence this article will argue that the current …

The children of high-income parents often become high-income adults, while their low-
income peers often become low-income adults. Education plays a central role in this …

We draw on 120 years of biographical data (N= 120,764) contained within Who's Who—a
unique catalogue of the British elite—to explore the changing relationship between elite …

Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white
families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in …

This contribution provides a long-term assessment of intergenerational social mobility trends
in the United States across the 20th and early 21st centuries and assesses the determinants …

Intergenerational mobility is higher among college graduates than among people with lower
levels of education. In light of this finding, researchers have characterized a college degree …

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …