In this article, we study whether social capital contributes to ethnic inequality in education or whether there is evidence of counter-stratification. We use data from three surveys of Swedish ninth-graders in different contexts to fit regression models for access to social capital and educational returns. Our results show that students with parents from Asia or Southeast Europe had equal or better access to social capital, compared to children with at least one parent born in Sweden. Results for children with African background were mixed. Regarding educational outcomes, we found similar rates of returns from social capital across groups. Better access to social capital thus seems to buffer against disadvantages for some, but not all, groups.

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移民子女获得社会资本和教育收益的途径：来自三项瑞典研究的证据

在本文中，我们研究了社会资本是否加剧了教育中的种族不平等，或者是否存在反分层的证据。我们使用来自瑞典九年级学生在不同背景下进行的三项调查得出的数据来拟合回归模型，以获取社会资本和教育回报。我们的结果表明，与有至少一位父母在瑞典出生的孩子相比，有来自亚洲或东南欧父母的学生获得社会资本的平等或更好。非洲背景儿童的结果好坏参半。关于教育成果，我们发现各群体的社会资本回报率相近。因此，更好地获得社会资本的途径似乎可以缓解某些而非全部群体的不利条件。