The Role of Expectations in Adolescent Schooling Choices: Do Youths Respond to Economic Incentives?

Kathryn Wilson, Barbara Wolfe () and Robert Haveman

Economic Inquiry, 2005, vol. 43, issue 3, 467-492

Abstract: We address the role of youths' own choice-conditioned expectations in understanding their schooling choices by constructing a choice (or "switching") model. We emphasize the effect of individual student perceptions regarding the returns associated with graduating from high school versus dropping out, while controlling for an extensive set of family and community factors. We find that youths' expected income returns to graduating from high school are influential in their schooling choices, even when an extensive set of background, economic, family, and neighborhood variables, designed to capture the effects of parental and governmental decisions, is introduced into the analysis. (JEL I20, J24) Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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