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Andrea Forster is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, primarily affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the ICS research school. Her research interests focus on mechanisms of educational inequality, returns to education, transitions from school to work, vocational education, labor market inequalities, and social stratification. Forster employs predominantly quantitative research methods, utilizing longitudinal survey data, population register data from the Netherlands, and factorial survey experiments to investigate these topics. In her teaching, she covers social inequality, sociology of education, and applied regression analysis, and she also supervises student research projects, including bachelor's and master's theses. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2021, with a thesis on family-level mechanisms of educational inequality within educational systems. After completing her doctorate, she undertook a postdoctoral position at the Free University Berlin, addressing issues related to the transition of young adults into higher education and the labor market.
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