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  Fiscal StudiesVolume 25 Issue 2, Pages 107 - 128 Published Online: 2 Feb 2005 © Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2009 Published on behalf of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Abstract | References | Full Text: PDF (Size: 104K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Educational inequality: the widening socio-economic gap Funding from the Sutton Trust, the Treasury's Evidence Based Policy Fund and the EC Framework 5 EDWIN (Education and Wage Inequality in Europe) grant is gratefully acknowledged. This work draws, heavily in parts, on the authors' joint work with Jo Blanden, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Alissa Goodman and Paul Gregg but the views and interpretations expressed are their own. The authors thank two referees and the past editor, Alissa Goodman, for a number of helpful comments. Copyright Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2004 KEYWORDS I2 • intergenerational mobility • education • inequality Abstract
In this paper, we consider research on links between higher education and family background, focusing particularly on the experiences of two cohorts of individuals born in 1958 and 1970. The findings point to a rise in educational inequality during the period relevant to these two cohorts. Specifically, links between educational achievement and parental income / social class strengthened during this period. Furthermore, a person's actual (measured) ability became a poorer predictor of whether they would get a degree than was previously the case. The expansion of higher education in the UK during this period appears to have disproportionately benefited children from richer families rather than the most able. Furthermore, the labour market success or failure of individuals became more closely connected to their parents' income, revealing a fall in the extent of intergenerational mobility over time. | 
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