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Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university? (2023)
Journal Article
Capsada‐Munsech, Q., & Boliver, V. (2024). Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?. British Educational Research Journal, 50(1), 348-366. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3929

In 2018 the UK government launched a £50 million scheme to fund the expansion of existing grammar schools provided that they increase efforts to attract more pupils from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. This initiative assumed that gramma... Read More about Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?.

Lives on track? Long-term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark (2021)
Journal Article
Birkelund, J., Capsada-Munsech, Q., Boliver, V., & Karlson, K. (2021). Lives on track? Long-term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark. British Journal of Sociology, 72(3), 672-692. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12856

We explore the influence of between-school ability placement at lower secondary education on earnings across the life course in England and Denmark. We go beyond the mid-career snapshot provided by previous studies by exploiting the availability of f... Read More about Lives on track? Long-term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark.

Measuring Overeducation: Incidence, Correlation and Overlaps Across Indicators and Countries (2019)
Journal Article
Capsada-Munsech, Q. (2019). Measuring Overeducation: Incidence, Correlation and Overlaps Across Indicators and Countries. Social Indicators Research, 145(1), 279-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02112-0

The methodological debate on how to measure overeducation has been present since the introduction of the topic in the academic debate. Nevertheless, there is still no consensus on a preferred indicator. This article aims at contributing to the existi... Read More about Measuring Overeducation: Incidence, Correlation and Overlaps Across Indicators and Countries.

Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain (2019)
Journal Article
Capsada-Munsech, Q. (2020). Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 50(2), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1579085

This article focuses on the influence of social background on overeducation in Spain, understanding family socialisation as a source of knowledge and skills gain. The dramatic education expansion experienced in Spain in combination with a high percen... Read More about Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain.