Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are disadvantaged in terms of health and socio-economic status compared with heterosexual people, yet findings pertaining to educational outcomes vary depending on the specific identity and gender considered. This study delves into these unexplained findings by applying a social-stratification lens, thereby providing an account of how intergenerational educational mobility varies by sexual identity. To accomplish this, we use representative data from five OECD countries and a regression-based empirical specification relying on coarsened exact matching. We find that gay and lesbian people have higher educational attainment than heterosexual people in all five countries and that these higher levels of education stem from greater rates of upward educational mobility among gay/lesbian people. There were, however, few differences between heterosexual and bisexual people. Variation across countries emerged when analyses were stratified by gender, with higher rates of upward mobility observed for gay men in Australia, Chile, the United Kingdom, and the United States and lesbian women in Australia and Germany. Overall, our results align with previous claims that education can be a strategy for gay/lesbian people to avoid actual or anticipated discrimination. However, variation in these patterns across groups suggests that other mechanisms may also be at play.

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代际教育流动性是否因性别认同而异？经合组织五个国家的比较分析

与异性恋者相比，女同性恋者、男同性恋者和双性恋者在健康和社会经济地位方面处于不利地位，但有关教育成果的调查结果因所考虑的具体身份和性别而异。这项研究通过应用社会分层视角，深入研究了这些无法解释的发现，从而解释了代际教育流动性如何因性别认同而变化。为了实现这一目标，我们使用来自五个经合组织国家的代表性数据和依赖于粗化精确匹配的基于回归的经验规范。我们发现，在所有五个国家中，男女同性恋者的教育程度高于异性恋者，而这些较高的教育水平源于男女同性恋者较高的教育向上流动率。然而，也有 异性恋和双性恋之间几乎没有什么区别。当按性别进行分层分析时，各国之间出现了差异，澳大利亚、智利、英国和美国的男同性恋者以及澳大利亚和德国的女同性恋者的向上流动率较高。总体而言，我们的结果与之前的说法一致，即教育可以成为同性恋者避免实际或预期歧视的一种策略。然而，这些模式在不同群体之间的差异表明其他机制也可能在发挥作用。我们的结果与之前的说法一致，即教育可以成为同性恋者避免实际或预期歧视的一种策略。然而，这些模式在不同群体之间的差异表明其他机制也可能在发挥作用。我们的结果与之前的说法一致，即教育可以成为同性恋者避免实际或预期歧视的一种策略。然而，这些模式在不同群体之间的差异表明其他机制也可能在发挥作用。