Previous studies find little evidence that welfare regimes affect public support for welfare state principles, policies, and programmes in any systematic way. This article argues that limitations in operational definitions of welfare regimes might explain why previous studies do not find any...

This paper tests the self-interest hypothesis arguing that changes in macroeconomic and social conditions affect popular demand for redistribution. I analyze data from four waves of the European Social Survey and use a synthetic cohort design to generate pseudo panel data for socio-demographic...

Research reports that women are more likely than men to participate in highbrow cultural activities, but we do not know whether this gap develops within the family at an early age or is the outcome of economic and positional differences between men and women later in life. We use a Danish data...

This paper is about the puzzle of why women express stronger support for income redistribution than men. The analysis is based on Danish survey data (DLSY-C 2010) including information on brothers, sisters and parents and allowing us to distinguish factors within and between families. The...

This paper provides new estimates of the causal effect of cultural capital on academic achievement. I use a difference-in-difference design which addresses the problem of omitted variable bias which has led to too optimistic estimates of the effect of cultural capital on educational success in...

The aim of this paper is investigate the extent to which monetary and non-monetary social background factors explain intergenerational educational attainment in Denmark. The main hypothesis tested is that non-monetary social background factors (cultural, social, and cognitive parental resources)...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of retirement on psychological well-being. Findings from previous research in this field are inconsistent, as both positive, negative, and sometimes no effect of retirement on well-being is reported. In the paper we suggest that the...

The theory of Relative Risk Aversion (RRA) claims that educational decision-making is ultimately motivated by the individual’s desire to avoid downward social class mobility, and that this desire is stronger than the desire to pursue upward mobility. This paper implements a dynamic programming...

The sociological research literature on intergenerational educational attainment has highlighted three types of theoretical frameworks in explaining to what extent social origins influences people’s educational choices and possibilities. The three explanatory frameworks are 1) the...