ABSTRACT By studying population-wide panels of 10th graders in Norway, I investigate the association between the social class composition of cohorts in schools and choosing an academic as opposed to a vocational track at upper-secondary level. Two steps are used to study this relationship. First, I use multilevel models estimating the group level model simultaneously with the regression of the individual-level model. Second, by using 11 panels of 10th graders, I employ school fixed effects to get closer to an estimate of school compositional effects happening within the school. Both models find that the proportion of upper-class peers at lower-secondary schools is associated with the increased likelihood of choosing academic tracks at the upper-secondary level, and especially for students who are not from upper-class backgrounds. This suggests that the ‘classed’ nature of educational decision-making is also embedded in contexts beyond familial ones.

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“分级”学校环境中的职业和学术决策

摘要通过研究挪威10年级学生的全体小组，我研究了在校学生的社会阶层组成与在高中阶段选择学术而非职业道路之间的关联。使用两个步骤来研究这种关系。首先，我使用多级模型来估计组级模型，同时对个人级模型进行回归。其次，通过使用11个10年级学生的面板，我采用了学校固定效应，以更接近对学校内部发生的学校构成效应的估计。两种模型都发现，初中高年级同龄人的比例与选择高中阶段学术课程的可能性增加有关，特别是对于那些不是来自高年级背景的学生。