Who pursues an educational pathway, and who doesn't is highly connected to class position. On the other hand, education … Bourdieu's much used concepts of capital, barriers for continued education after compulsory school. These barriers are found on … expectations for higher education from both professionals and carers. The analyses also show that having acquired an educational …

broad public services, such as education. At the same time, research has abstracted from the potentially influential role of … mass media on parental investments in children's education. We address both issues using a “natural experiment” in radio …, households with greater media access make larger private investments in their children's education. …

quality of local public education—at the district level or the level of the neighborhood school? (2) After accounting for … public education at the district level rather than at the level of the local school. Class size at the high-school level has …