Stephen W. Raudenbush|Rob Eschmann
Does Schooling Increase or Reduce Social Inequality?
University of Chicago|University of Chicago
experience school increase reduce social inequality skills sociologists long debated question drawing counterfactual account causality propose impact going school given skill depends quality instructional regime child experience school compared quality instructional regime child would receive school children vary benefit new instruction current skill increases benefit hypothesize expansion free universal schooling promotes social equality part equalizing access school also disadvantaged children benefit access however predict equalizing effect pronounced younger children older children test hypotheses review empirical evidence regarding impact increasing access universal kindergarten preschool b interrupting schooling summer recess c extending school day extending years compulsory schooling consider implications potential school reform reduce educational inequality