On the endogeneity of parental expectations and children’s academic attainment

Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez () and Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo ()
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Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo: Universidad de Malaga

Chapter 30 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2016, vol. 11, pp 551-568 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: Parents and their children’s expectations on educational achievement have been highlighted in the literature as proper proxy indicators for students’ forthcoming performance. In this research we intend to measure the effect of these indicators accounting for the existence of endogeneity –due to their reciprocal relationship– and also their correlation with unobservable variables conditioning students’ achievement. Our results show a positive influence of the agreement of parental and children’s expectations on students’ achievement and on the likelihood of children’s enrollment in a particular academic track. However the effect varies according to whether the one reporting higher expectations is the father/mother or the child. In addition, parental expectations have been found to be dependent on family socio-economic background, what supports the persistence of strong barriers to socioeconomic mobility of children. We suggest policy interventions as, e.g., fostering the participation of both parents and children on university and professional orientation in early stages of secondary education, so they could have complete and symmetric information to set their expectations on a realistic basis.

Keywords: parental expectations; children’s expectations; indicators; educational performance; endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D84 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-84-945958-6-8
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