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"De tal padre, tal hijo?' Estudios sobre movilidad social y educational en Argentina". 'Like father like son?' Studies on social and educational mobility in Argentina
70. Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Buenos Aires, (2014)
Abstract
This study addresses the relationship between fathers’ class origins and their children’s educational destinations in Argentina (for men and women, 20-69 years old), controlling by birth cohorts as well as by educational levels. Then the association between class origin and class destination is analyzed, this time simultaneously controlling by birth cohorts and educational levels. For these analyses several loglineal models are considered: independence, constant association, and uniform effects. It is also introduced a model based on several
hypothesis that try to capture different effects between class of origin and class of destination, called core model. The data base aggregates several sampling surveys carried out between 2003 and 2012/13. The Casmin class scheme is used, for six class categories (rural classes are merged together).
An important part of this work is devoted to explore the effects of education on the relationship between fathers’ class and that of their children. This is carried out within the context of a “strong” and “weak” version of dominant hypothesis on persistent inequality of educational opportunities. Results for Argentina seem to be close with the last version, which notes that the association between origins and education is presently a moderate one. On the bases of the different models used in the analysis –either three ways or four ways-, the best fit seems to be almost always showed by the constant association model, suggesting a certain invariance
of the class origin-class destination relationship, either taking into account birth cohorts or educational levels.
