The role of educational choices in the transition to high school in Mexico City

Abstract

The article studies the role of educational choices in the transition to high school in Mexico City. It argues that educational choice analysis helps to understand inequality of opportunities during post-secondary transitions. So, using comipems 2010 database, there are distinguished three groups of factors involved in educational choices during the transition to high school in Mexico City: social origin, previous trajectories experiences and educational aspirations. The statistical results suggest that the educational choices are largely homologous to the student`s social origin positions. In those terms, is established that educational choices become an element that contributes in the persistence of inequality of opportunity conditions.