Behavioral and statistical models of educational inequality

Anders Holm () and Richard Breen
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Richard Breen: University of Oxford, UK

Rationality and Society, 2016, vol. 28, issue 3, 270-298

Abstract: This article addresses the question of how students and their families make educational decisions. We describe three types of behavioral model that might underlie decision-making, and we show that they have consequences for what decisions are made. Our study, thus, has policy implications if we wish to encourage students and their families to make better educational choices. We also establish the conditions under which empirical analysis can distinguish between the three sorts of decision-making, and we illustrate our arguments using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study.

Keywords: Behavioral model; educational decisions; identification; rationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/1043463116653730

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