Continuing Education and Stratification at Midlife.

ABSTRACT: We ask whether patterns of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in educational attainment are amplified or attenuated when we take a longer view of educational careers. We propose a model of staged advantage to understand how educational inequalities evolve over the life course. Distinct from cumulative advantage, staged advantage asserts that inequalities in education ebb and flow over the life course as the population at risk of making each educational transition changes along with the constraints they confront in seeking more education. Results based on data from the 2014 follow-up of the sophomore cohort of High School and Beyond offer partial support for our hypotheses. The educational attainment process was far from over for our respondents as they aged through their

SUBMITTER: Grodsky E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494235 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature