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Supplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textSupplemental materials for paper: It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature
No full textGender Representation in Expert Groups
No full textExpert institutions are increasingly expected not only to provide the best professional expertise but also to ensure equal presence of women. Yet while there is an extensive literature on descriptive gender representation in bureaucracies and courts, we largely lack studies that examine patterns of women’s presence on expert advisory bodies. Drawing on large-n data on the composition of Norwegian expert advisory commissions, the paper investigates and evaluates how the share of women on these commissions has developed over the last half-century. It finds that while overall gender parity was achieved in recent decades, women remain strongly under-represented among commission chairs, particularly academic chairs, and among commission members from economics, an especially important policy discipline. Normatively speaking, the developments towards parity are promising, and we find no empirical confirmation of the worry that proportional representation and competence requirements are in tension. On the contrary, persistent gender gaps among economists on commissions and academic chairs may endanger adequate provision of expertise into policy-making
Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study among Children of Immigrants
No full textEducational expansion has raised the influence of sorting across postsecondary educational fields for children’s future life chances. Yet, little is known about horizontal ethnic stratification in choice of field of study among children of immigrant parents who, while often having moderate absolute levels of education compared to native-born parents, tend to be positively selected on education relative to non-migrants in the origin country. Using rich administrative data from Norway, we study the educational careers of immigrant descendants relative to children of native-born parents. Our results show that children of immigrants from non-European origin countries have higher likelihood of entering higher education and enroll in high-paying fields of study compared children of natives despite poorer school grades and disadvantaged family background. However, immigrant parents’ positive selectivity provides limited insight into why children of immigrants exhibit high ambitions later in their postsecondary educational careers. These findings document a persistent pattern of horizontal ethnic advantage in postsecondary education, where ambitious children of immigrants enter into more prestigious and economically rewarding fields of studies than their fellow students with native-born parents
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