 Who Goes to College? Features of Institutional Tracking in Japanese Higher EducationHiroshi Ono () No 95, EIJS Working Paper Series from Stockholm School of Economics, The European Institute of Japanese Studies Abstract: Features of institutional tracking play a key role in shaping an individual fs access to and advancement through higher education in Japan. This paper brings institutional tracking features to the foreground and examines the process by which individuals advance from middle school to high school, and ultimately to college. The analysis also accounts for social origin effects, thereby allowing us to re-examine claims of meritocracy in conjunction with institutional tracking effects. I find support for a tournament-like mobility of individuals in the system of higher education in Japan, where those who move down don ft move up again. My research also finds strong evidence that social origin matters, and that institutional tracking affects men and women in different ways. Keywords: institutional tracking; tournament mobility; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in American Journal of Education, 2001, pages 161-195. There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:eijswp:0095 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in EIJS Working Paper Series from Stockholm School of Economics, The European Institute of Japanese Studies The European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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