All I Have to Do Is Dream? The Role of Aspirations in Inter-Generational Mobility and Well-Being
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We study the determinants and consequences of educational and occupational aspirations. Basing our inquiry on the British NCDS 1958 cohort data, we assess the importance of aspirations for social mobility above and beyond other established determinants. We document educational and occupational inequalities in young individuals’ aspirations, whereby parental aspirations are a strong predictor of children’s aspiration-levels. While we find a positive correlation between aspirations and later achievement, we also provide evidence for reduced well-being in adulthood if aspirations in adolescence were higher than actual achievements later in life.
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Lekfuangfu and Odermatt (2020) show that parental aspirations are strong predictors of the educational aspirations of their children, even conditional on the socio-economic status of the parents and the cognitive and non-cognitive skills of the child.
“Lekfuangfu and Odermatt (2020) show that parental aspirations are strong predictors of the educational aspirations of their children, even conditional on the socio-economic status of the parents and the cognitive and non-cognitive skills of the child.”
From Educational Inequality* (2022) · cites this paper as Lekfuangfu and Odermatt (2020)
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“25 The estimations here acknowledge that on the one hand, teachers play an important role in shaping students’ beliefs about their academic prospects (for instance Burgess and Greaves 2013, Ouazad 2014, Dee 2015).”
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Blanden, J., Doepke, M., & Stuhler, J. (2022) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w29979 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
- Authors
- Lekfuangfu, W. N., & Odermatt, R.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- University of Basel (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Lekfuangfu, Warn N.
- Venue
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020
- ISSN
- 1556-5068 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3203657366
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- Type
- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Keywords
- educational aspirations, career aspirations, intergenerational mobility, social mobility, parental influence, educational inequality, occupational inequality, well-being, adolescence
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