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Erik Rosenqvist is an Assistant Professor at Linköping University. His research primarily examines how schools and school environments, influenced by socio-economic backgrounds, produce and reproduce (in)equality in life chances. He investigates how school composition and peer effects influence students' educational decisions, focusing on their grading practices and the differences in achievements among students from varying socio-economic backgrounds. Erik earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stockholm University in November 2018, with a dissertation titled "Social Influence on Educational Decisions," which explored how peer effects and school composition shape students' decisions to start and finish different types of upper secondary and tertiary educations, utilizing register data. He is currently the principal investigator of a project titled "Consequences of Educational Reforms on School Segregation and Educational Equity" in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, which examines educational segregation and inequalities and how they have been influenced by educational reforms over time.
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