Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
@hermwerf.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at the #EUI, Florence. Works on education & social stratification. Posts r personal.
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Substack/blogs: https://hermwerf.substack.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl=nl
@eui-sps.bsky.social
Substack/blogs: https://hermwerf.substack.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl=nl
Oh no. At REC??
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Oh no. At REC??
"inherited inequality accounts for large shares of total inequality, from 36% in the United States to 59% in China, 62% in India, and 81% in South Africa".
How much of today's income inequality is inherited? 💰️
Most measures of intergenerational mobility focus on average outcomes. This III working paper proposes a new approach that captures differences across the entire income distribution.
🔗 buff.ly/zSL1fd1
Most measures of intergenerational mobility focus on average outcomes. This III working paper proposes a new approach that captures differences across the entire income distribution.
🔗 buff.ly/zSL1fd1
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
February 8, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I am now writing on myopia in school careers, and I find that mypoia is greater among low-SES students - and one needs more farsightedness in an early tracking system. Such farsightedness is *assumed* in economic theory but I'd like to nuance that.
February 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I am now writing on myopia in school careers, and I find that mypoia is greater among low-SES students - and one needs more farsightedness in an early tracking system. Such farsightedness is *assumed* in economic theory but I'd like to nuance that.
At the same time detracking in the form of offering *some* broader schools doesn't seem to do much, says Dutch and German research. If such broader schools are placed in a system that also offers early-tracking gymnasiums and pre-vocational schools, detracking doesn't reduce inequalities.
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
At the same time detracking in the form of offering *some* broader schools doesn't seem to do much, says Dutch and German research. If such broader schools are placed in a system that also offers early-tracking gymnasiums and pre-vocational schools, detracking doesn't reduce inequalities.
Some comparative evidence of this: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10..... And more. I agree the macro and micro-questions are different. But early tracking *systems* are predictive of larger SES gaps in school careers, test scores etc., upholding in reform designs, dif-in-dif on prim/sec >
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Some comparative evidence of this: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10..... And more. I agree the macro and micro-questions are different. But early tracking *systems* are predictive of larger SES gaps in school careers, test scores etc., upholding in reform designs, dif-in-dif on prim/sec >
Toegang tot algebra
February 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Toegang tot algebra
Ja dat bedoel ik ook. Het feit dat er steeds minder geld door de CB wordt gecreeerd. Mede door het samenvoegen van financiële diensten
February 1, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Ja dat bedoel ik ook. Het feit dat er steeds minder geld door de CB wordt gecreeerd. Mede door het samenvoegen van financiële diensten
With a hitting on Becker
January 31, 2026 at 8:57 PM
With a hitting on Becker