Kinder aus Einwanderungsfamilien haben oft hohe Bildungsziele. Die Hoffnung, erwartete Diskriminierung durch Bildung überwinden zu können, spielt dabei keine Rolle. Vielmehr übernehmen die Kinder Aufstiegshoffnungen ihrer Eltern.

This paper aims to provide information on intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey over the last century (at least over the last 65 years). This is the first study explicitly on providing the association between parents’ and children’s education in Turkey over time unlike the...

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...