Educational Aspirations

Pawel Strawinski

No 2011-10, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to check to what extent different environmental and institutional surroundings affect educational aspirations. We conduct a comparison study between different local municipalities in Poland. We use statistical description to compare educational aspirations in selected regions of Poland and apply econometric techniques to test formally the relation between educational aspirations and education, income and other socioeconomic factors. We show that the level of aspirations is well diversified and is higher in developed areas of Poland. We also found that contrary to the existing literature, the educational aspirations seem to rise with age of the respondent.

Keywords: aspirations; returns to education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2011
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