This article explores how parental resources work together to secure higher education for their offspring. It does so by, first, mapping the linkages between cumulative advantages and disadvantages of respondents’ parental resources and educational attainment across countries and cohorts. Second, investigating under which institutional setup of education systems these linkages between parental background and educational attainment are the weakest. At both levels, the set-analytic approach is applied. We show that disadvantages tend to cumulate to a much greater extent than advantages and their role in hindering higher educational attainment is much stronger than advantages to enable it. The only configuration of educational system that is sufficient to mitigate linkages between cumulative background and educational attainment in both directions, that is, advantageous background to enable and disadvantageous background to hinder higher educational attainment, combines high levels of standardization and decommodification.

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高等教育获得的累积优势和劣势：六个欧洲国家不对称不平等的集合分析比较

本文探讨了父母资源如何协同工作以确保其后代接受高等教育。它首先通过绘制受访者父母资源的累积优势和劣势与不同国家和群体的教育程度之间的联系来做到这一点。其次，调查在哪种教育体制下，父母背景和教育程度之间的联系最弱。在这两个级别上，都应用了集合分析方法。我们表明，劣势往往比优势更容易累积，并且它们在阻碍更高教育成就方面的作用比优势强得多。教育系统的唯一配置，足以在两个方向上减轻累积背景和教育成就之间的联系，