Educational expansion reforms and intergenerational educational mobility in Norway

IF 2.7 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

Social Forces Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI:10.1093/sf/soaf101

Adrian Farner Rogne, Siri Frisli

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Abstract

The latter half of the 20th century was marked by a massive expansion of higher educational systems in many Western countries. This development provided greater educational opportunities, resulted in a marked increase in educational attainment, and has been attributed as an important factor behind increased intergenerational educational mobility. Most previous studies of these developments are based on analyses of aggregate trends in educational attainment and mobility and overlook the geographical dimension of educational expansions. The geographic location of colleges and the local availability of higher educational institutions may have had important impacts on local patterns of intergenerational educational mobility. We study the impacts of major educational expansion reforms that took place between 1969 and 1993 in Norway and resulted in a massive decentralization of higher educational opportunities. Combining recent developments in differences-in-differences methodology, detailed data on the establishment and upgrading of such institutions, and population-wide register data on social origins and educational attainment, we study the effects of the establishment and upgrading of local colleges on educational mobility. Results suggest that these improvements in local educational opportunities had little to no impact on intergenerational educational mobility locally. We discuss our findings in light of the Norwegian welfare state context.

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挪威教育扩张改革与代际教育流动

20世纪后半叶的特点是许多西方国家高等教育体系的大规模扩张。这一发展提供了更多的教育机会，导致受教育程度的显著提高，并被认为是代际教育流动性增加背后的一个重要因素。以前对这些发展的大多数研究都是基于对受教育程度和流动性的总体趋势的分析，而忽视了教育扩张的地理层面。大学的地理位置和当地高等教育机构的可获得性可能对当地代际教育流动模式产生重要影响。我们研究了1969年至1993年在挪威发生的重大教育扩张改革的影响，这些改革导致了高等教育机会的大规模分散化。结合“差异中差异”方法的最新发展、此类机构建立和升级的详细数据，以及有关社会起源和受教育程度的全民登记数据，我们研究了地方大学的建立和升级对教育流动性的影响。结果表明，这些地方教育机会的改善对地方代际教育流动性的影响很小或没有影响。我们在挪威福利国家的背景下讨论我们的发现。

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Social Forces SOCIOLOGY-

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6.30

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6.20%

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123

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