Educational Expansion and Shifts in the Social Origins of Tertiary Graduates—Comparing Cohorts Born 1948–1992 in Six Countries

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Abstract

Educational expansion shifted the distribution of educational attainment across most countries and cohorts over the twentieth century. Using harmonised panel surveys covering six diverse systems, we examine how changes in parental education and in the association between parental and child attainment jointly shaped the social‑origin composition of tertiary graduates.