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LIfBi Lectures: "The fundamental causes of educational inequality"

07.12.2020, 16:00 Uhr

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The theory of fundamental causes has had wide influence in the field of health inequality, but its influence in other fields of inequality research has been more limited. This is somewhat surprising, given that many inequality researchers hold views that are wholly consistent with the fundamental causes approach. Indeed, most theories of educational inequality exhibit key properties that Lutfey and Freese (2005) identify as characteristics of a theory of fundamental causes: socioeconomic background is understood to influence educational attainment via multiple causal mechanisms, and improvements in overall levels of educational attainment (i.e. educational expansion) may have only a modest impact on the association between socioeconomic background and attainment.