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Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 7.5k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on intergenerational mobility, social stratification, and the impact of education, family background, and economic inequality on individuals' opportunities. It explores the relationship between education, health, and economic mobility, as well as the effects of compulsory schooling and occupational status on intergenerational outcomes.

  • Intergenerational Mobility
  • Social Stratification
  • Education
  • Inequality
  • Family Background
  • Economic Mobility
  • Health
  • Compulsory Schooling
  • Occupational Status
  • Class Analysis
Research works
7.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
766
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Which countries lead Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (373 and 204 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 373 works
  2. 2 China 204 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 155 works
  4. 4 Germany 153 works
  5. 5 Italy 73 works
  6. 6 Spain 58 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 46 works
  8. 8 Sweden 44 works
  9. 9 France 42 works
  10. 10 Japan 37 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 31.5%China: 17.2%United Kingdom: 13.1%Germany: 12.9%6 others listed: 25.3%32%largest
United States373 · 31.5%China204 · 17.2%United Kingdom155 · 13.1%Germany153 · 12.9%6 others listed300 · 25.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies research, followed by University College London and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 22 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 21 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 16 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  5. 5 Stockholm UniversitySweden 12 works
  6. 6 University of ChicagoUnited States 11 works
  7. 7 University of OsloNorway 11 works
  8. 8 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 11 works
  9. 9 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 11 works
  10. 10 IZA - Institute of Labor EconomicsGermany 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies include George Davey Smith, Martin McKee and Carlo La Vecchia.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  4. 4 Young‐Ho Khang South Korea 231k citations
  5. 5 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  6. 6 PAUL S. F. YIP China 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies?

The most cited paper in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies is "Towards an understanding of inequity." (J. Stacy Adams, 1963), with 5,157 citations. Next come "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence" (4,439) and "Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak" (3,733).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Towards an understanding of inequity. J. Stacy Adams · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology Nov 1963 5,157
2 Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence Richard Ainley Easterlin · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1974 4,439
3 Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak John Bound, David A. Jaeger, Regina M. Baker · Journal of the American Statistical Association Jun 1995 3,733
4 An Introduction to Latent Class Growth Analysis and Growth Mixture Modeling Tony Jung, Kandauda A. S. Wickrama · Social and Personality Psychology Compass 6 Dec 2007 3,231
5 A standard international socio-economic index of occupational status Harry B. G. Ganzeboom, Paul M. de Graaf, Donald J. Treiman · Social Science Research Open access Mar 1992 3,164
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Where is Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies research done?

The largest centres of Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Oslo (Norway) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oslo, Oxford and Stockholm.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 55 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  3. 3 OsloNorway 24 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 22 works
  5. 5 StockholmSweden 21 works
  6. 6 OxfordUnited Kingdom 21 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 19 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 19 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OsloNO · 24.3 works10×
  2. OxfordGB · 20.5 works7.0×
  3. StockholmSE · 20.8 works6.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oslo, University College London and University of Lausanne score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OsloUniversity of LausanneUniversity of OxfordUniversity College L…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of OsloNorway 79.633.3%12.1×11 +38.5%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.810.2%8.9×21 +4.0%
3University of LausanneSwitzerland 57.820.2%13.0×8 +130.1%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 49.212.1%8.1×16 -40.4%
5Stockholm UniversitySweden 44.817.3%24.0×12 -23.7%
6University of ChicagoUnited States 43.39.3%9.1×11 +63.5%
7London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 37.013.3%30.8×11 -11.3%
8Beijing Normal UniversityChina 32.311.6%9.3×11 +166.8%
9Peking UniversityChina 31.217.2%3.1×9 +80.7%
10Duke UniversityUnited States 30.98.6%7.5×9 +116.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, country by country

Is Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0068% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies0.0066% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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