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Educational Inequality and The Expansion of UK Higher Education

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Blanden, Jo, Machin, Stephen·2013·Scottish Journal of Political Economy
DOI 10.1111/sjpe.12024
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In this paper we explore changes over time in higher education (HE) participation and attainment between people from richer and poorer family backgrounds during a time period when the UK higher education system expanded at a rapid rate. We use longitudinal data from three time periods to study temporal shifts in HE participation and attainment across parental income groups for children going to university in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The key finding is a highly policy relevant one, namely that HE expansion has not been equally distributed across people from richer and poorer backgrounds. Rather, it has disproportionately benefited children from relatively rich families. Despite the fact that many more children from higher income backgrounds participated in HE before the recent expansion of the system, the expansion acted to widen participation gaps between rich and poor children. This finding is robust to different measures of education participation and inequality. It also emerges from non‐parametric estimations and from a more detailed econometric model allowing for the sequential nature of education choices with potentially different income associations at different stages of the education sequence.

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  1. Callender C., 2003, Access and Exclusion: International Perspectives on Higher Education Research
  2. Machin S., 1999, The State of Working Britain

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Authors
Blanden, J., & Machin, S.
Affiliations
  • IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (DE)
  • University College London (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2013-10-02
Volume
60
Issue
5
Pages
578-596
ISSN
  • 0036-9292 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9485
DOI
10.1111/sjpe.12024
OpenAlex
W2104044056
Cited by
59
References
28
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 5
FWCI
11.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Scottish Journal of Political Economy (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Sutton Trust
  • Treasury Evidence Based Policy Fund
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
Keywords
educational inequality, higher education expansion, university participation, academic performance, parental income, social class, educational attainment gap, educational choice, UK higher education, 1970s-1990s

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