Are educational chances determined by the number of siblings and the family structure?

Abstract

The theme of the paper is to study the differentiation of educational trajectory (transition from second level to higer education) in the context of siblings and family structure. Binary logistic regression is used to predict the chance of study Gymnasium.

Transition model tests on cross-sectional data of the international PISA 2000 and 2009.

Keywords

• differentiation of educational trajectory
• number of siblings
• family structure
• binary logistic regression
• transition model