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Direct linkHannu Lehti; Heikki Kinnari – European Education, 2024
Applying a Bourdieusian perspective, we investigate whether families' institutionalized cultural capital (parental education) and economic capital (family income) are associated with the duration of university studies in Finland. We use register data comprising 10,516 students enrolled in universities between 1999 and 2002 and Tobit modeling. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Time to Degree
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; Toivanen, Otto – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income and off-spring probability of inventing is greatly…
Descriptors: Correlation, Low Income, Social Differences, Social Mobility
