Selection and the economic value of education: A barrier to reducing the SES achievement gap?

Darnon, Celine, Sommet, Nicolas, Normand, Alice and Manstead, Antony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-2096 2024. Selection and the economic value of education: A barrier to reducing the SES achievement gap? Journal of Social Issues 80 (4) , pp. 1238-1261. 10.1111/josi.12646 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Due to the role that schools play in determining the status of the future occupations of their children (i.e., the selection function of education), high socioeconomic status (SES) parents may not always be supportive of interventions that would reduce the SES achievement gap. In four experiments, we measured the support of parents (Ntotal = 1966) for implementing an equalizing (and, in Experiments 2 and 3, an inequality-maintaining) intervention. In Experiments 1 and 2, a negative association between subjective SES and support for the equalizing intervention was found when the selection function was made salient, an effect that was also observed in Experiment 4 but only for Right-leaning participants. In Experiment 3, where the salience of selection was held constant, we found a negative association between subjective SES and support for the equalizing intervention, but not the inequality-maintaining intervention.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0022-4537
Funders:	Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Universitaire de France
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 October 2024
Date of Acceptance:	9 October 2024
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2025 12:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172888

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