Do Plans Really Matter?: Re-Assessing the Role of Adolescent Expectations in Educational Attainment.

ABSTRACT: Stratification research in the status attainment tradition contends that adolescent educational expectations are a central determinant of educational attainment. Little research, however, has assessed the robustness of the powerful expectations-attainment associations revealed in cross-sectional models. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to estimate OLS, school fixed effects, and sibling fixed effects models, this study examines the association between adolescent expectations and educational attainment. The analysis reveals that adolescent expectations may play a much smaller role in predicting educational attainment than revealed in cross-sectional models. Point estimates of the association between adolescent expectations and educational attainme

SUBMITTER: Fishman SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050998 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature