Decomposing primary and secondary effects: A new decomposition method |
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Authors: | Kristian Bernt Karlson Anders Holm |
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Institution: | The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Tuborgvej 164, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark |
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Abstract: | One strand of educational inequality research aims at decomposing the effect of social class origin on educational choices into primary and secondary effects. We formalize this distinction and present a new and simple method that allows empirical assessment of the relative magnitudes of primary and secondary effects. Contrary to other decomposition methods, this new method is unbiased, is more intuitive, and decomposes effects of both discrete and continuous measures of social origin. The method also provides analytically derived statistical tests and is easily calculated with standard statistical software. We give examples using the Danish Longitudinal Survey of Youth. |
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Keywords: | Primary effects Secondary effects Decomposition Logit Logistic |
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