New paper! I find that growing performance-based inequalities—rather than selective school choices—have become the main driver of opportunity gaps under educational contraction, especially for girls from less advantaged backgrounds.
🌟New #OpenAccess at ESR
How do educational inequalities evolve during educational contraction?
Using Finnish register data for birth cohorts 1975-1997, @lintuslotta shows that trends differ by gender & do not always follow conventional expectations!
Read it at:doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag019
