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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Representative Evidence from Adults and Adolescents
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Abstract The gap in university enrolment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey of German adults, 74% of university graduates, but only 36% of those without a university degree, favour university education for their children. The latter are more likely t... mehr
The gap in university enrolment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey of German adults, 74% of university graduates, but only 36% of those without a university degree, favour university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university. Similarly, 75% of adolescents with university-educated parents, but only 51% without university-educated parents aspire to a university degree. Experimental provision of general return and cost information does not close the aspiration gap as treatment effects are at least as strong for individuals with a university background as for those without. Differences in economic preference parameters also cannot account for the educational aspiration gap.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Universität; Absolvent; Bildungsabschluss; Studienabschluss; Bildungsniveau; Eltern; Bildungsungleichheit; Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Klassifikation
Bildungs- und Erziehungssoziologie
Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich
Freie Schlagwörter
German Microcensus 2013
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 624-670
Zeitschriftentitel
Economica, 88 (2021) 351
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12371
ISSN
1468-0335
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0