Inequality of Educational Outcome and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in the Netherlands during the 20th Century
Dissertation
Defended in public on July 2nd 2010, 13:45, cum laude1.
This dissertation was awarded the FSW dissertatieprijs 2010 (Award for the best dissertation defended at the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2010).
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page and detailed table of contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Trends in educational inequality in the Netherlands: A replication and a critique
- Chapter 3: Scaling levels of education
- Chapter 4: Deceleration of the trend in inequality of educational outcome in the Netherlands
- Chapter 5: Parents and their resources: The relative influence of the education and occupation of both parents on the educational attainment of their offspring in the Netherlands between 1939 and 1991
- Chapter 6: Not all transitions are equal: The relationship between inequality of educational opportunities and inequality of educational outcomes
- Chapter 7: The consequences of unobserved heterogeneity in a sequential logit model
- Chapter 8: Conclusions and discussion
- Technical materials I: The sheafcoef and propcnsreg package
- Technical materials II: The seqlogit package
- Nederlandse samenvatting / summary in Dutch
- Data reference and bibliography
- All chapters together
- presentation held at the defence
- movie showing the ceremony where I got my diploma
1 The Dutch system only knows two grades for a PhD thesis: pass or cum laude, and the latter is only rarely given (< 5%).