Following in the Parents´ Footsteps
(WorldNews Europe)

Children from families with high professional and educational status are twice as likely to enter a prestigious university as their peers from low-resource families, HSE University researchers have found. The `privileged` adolescents benefit from strong family attitudes towards a good education, parental investment in their studies and the high academic performance associated with it. At the same time, even when they have good grades, students from poorly educated families do not even try to get into prestigious universities. The Family Curse Parents` socioeconomic status (SES) - their level of education, income and cultural involvement - remains the main predictor of their children`s...