Educational Aspirations and Attitudes over the Business Cycle

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9727601
AutoresMark Taylor (0000-0002-5647-426X, Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex), Mark P Taylor (0000-0002-4158-0983, University of Essex), Tina Rampino (0000-0002-0024-9899, Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex)
Año2014
Volumen81
Número324
Páginas649-673
Fecha de publicación2014-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ecca.12091
OpenAlexW2154897184
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas46

UK policy debate has recently focused on the role of young people's aspirations and attitudes in raising educational attainment. We use the youth component of the British Household Panel Survey to examine how educational attitudes and aspirations among 11‐ to 15‐year‐olds vary with the local unemployment rate. We find that children who have highly educated parents with positive educational attitudes react more positively to low labour demand than those from less educated families with negative educational attitudes. This reduces social mobility and increases persistence in educational inequality for a cohort growing up in a recession

British Household Panel Survey · Business cycle · Cohort · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Educational inequality · Great recession · Inequality · Labour economics · Panel data · Recession · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Unemployment · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance