All Stories

  1. Parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations: Prevalence, stability, and convergence over time

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Kaspar Burger

  2. Academic agency and educational attainment: The intersection of SES, ethnicity and sex

    Article • Learning and Individual Differences, May 2025, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  3. Is Intergroup Contact Desired by Migrants? The Case of Unaccompanied Minors in Switzerland

    Article • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, April 2025, Wiley

    Kaspar Burger

  4. The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, March 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Kaspar Burger

  5. The intergenerational reproduction of self-direction at work: Revisiting Class and Conformity

    Article • Social Forces, February 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kaspar Burger

  6. Frühe Förderung zur Prävention von Bildungsarmut

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  7. Origins, belonging, and expectations: assessing resource compensation and reinforcement in academic educational trajectories

    Article • Social Forces, August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kaspar Burger

  8. Parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations: Prevalence, stability, and convergence over time

    Article • July 2024, Center for Open Science

    Kaspar Burger

  9. Correction for Breznau et al., Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kaspar Burger

  10. Welfare state policy and educational inequality: a cross-national multicohort study

    Article • European Sociological Review, February 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kaspar Burger

  11. Self-esteem

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  12. Revisiting the Power of Future Expectations and Educational Path Dependencies

    Article • Advances in Life Course Research, November 2023, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  13. Mental health and educational attainment: How developmental stage matters.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, September 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kaspar Burger

  14. Mental health, gender, and higher education attainment

    Article • Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  15. Making it to the Academic Path in a Tracked Education System: The Interplay of Individual Agency and Social Origin in Early Educational Transitions

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  16. Researchers' own characteristics impact the research process independent of data and methods

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Nate Breznau, Kaspar Burger

  17. Disentangling the interplay of the sense of belonging and institutional channels in individuals’ educational trajectories.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kaspar Burger

  18. Incongruence between parental and adolescent educational aspirations hinders academic attainment

    Article • Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, October 2021, Policy Press

    Kaspar Burger

  19. Human Agency in Educational Trajectories: Evidence from a Stratified System

    Article • European Sociological Review, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kaspar Burger

  20. Socioeconomic origin, future expectations, and educational achievement: A longitudinal three-generation study of the persistence of family advantage.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kaspar Burger

  21. Making it against the odds: How individual and parental co-agency predict educational mobility

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, June 2021, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  22. Self-esteem and self-efficacy in the status attainment process and the multigenerational transmission of advantage

    Article • Social Science Research, February 2020, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  23. Negative life events, self-efficacy, and social support: Risk and protective factors for school dropout intentions and dropout.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, September 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kaspar Burger

  24. The socio-spatial dimension of educational inequality: A comparative European analysis

    Article • Studies In Educational Evaluation, September 2019, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  25. Social equality in education: France and England 1789–1939

    Article • History of Education, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Kaspar Burger

  26. Participation rights are particularly important in discriminatory environments

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kaspar Burger

  27. The role of social and psychological resources in children's perception of their participation rights

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, August 2017, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  28. The Role of Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy in Young People’s Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  29. Can children break the cycle of disadvantage? Structure and agency in the transmission of education across generations

    Article • Social Psychology of Education, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  30. Intergenerational transmission of education in Europe: Do more comprehensive education systems reduce social gradients in student achievement?

    Article • Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, June 2016, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger

  31. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Research on Early Childhood Education

    Article • GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, January 2016, Oekom Publishers

    Kaspar Burger

  32. Effective early childhood care and education: Successful approaches and didactic strategies for fostering child development

    Article • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Kaspar Burger

  33. Entanglement and transnational transfer in the history of infant schools in Great Britain andsalles d’asilein France, 1816–1881

    Article • History of Education, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Kaspar Burger

  34. Early Childhood Care and Education and Equality of Opportunity

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  35. Executive summary

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  36. Introduction

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  37. New contributions to early childhood care and education research

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  38. Synopsis

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaspar Burger

  39. A quasi-experimental study into the relations between families' social and cultural background and children's crèche experience and global cognitive competence in primary school

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Kaspar Burger

  40. A Social History of Ideas Pertaining to Childcare in France and in the United States

    Article • Journal of Social History, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kaspar Burger

  41. How does early childhood care and education affect cognitive development? An international review of the effects of early interventions for children from different social backgrounds

    Article • Early Childhood Research Quarterly, April 2010, Elsevier

    Kaspar Burger