Study Fischer (2009b): study ZZ OECD member states 1997
- Public:
- Adults, general public, 30 OECD countries, 1997-2001
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 45000
- Non Response:
- not reported
- Assessment:
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Educational mobility
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Intergenerational transmission of education: Dependency of student's educational attainment of her parents'education. Educational mobility is approximated by the difference between the mean student test score in the high-education-family-background-subsample and that in the medium-level-of-parental-education-subsample.
Negative values indicate educational immobility, values close to zero denote educational mobility.
Observed Relation with Happiness
Educational mobility goes with more happiness