Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Representative Evidence from Adults and Adolescents.

Autor/inn/en	Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger
Titel	Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Representative Evidence from Adults and Adolescents. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Erklärt die Unkenntnis von Erträgen und Kosten Unterschiede der Bildungsmotivation? Erkenntnisse aus repräsentativen Befragungsexperimenten.
Quelle	In: Economica / London School of Economics an Political Science, 88 (2021) 351, S. 624-670 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-0427; 1468-0335
DOI	10.1111/ecca.12371
URN	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-88104-6
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsmobilität; Bildungsmotivation; Soziale Mobilität; Bildungsertrag; Determinante; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Investition; Ausbildungskosten; Hochschulbildung; Studium; Entscheidungskriterium; Generationswechsel; Informationsangebot; Hochschulabsolvent
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 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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/4