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Biased Aspirations and Social Inequality at School: Evidence from French Teenagers

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Date
2020
Indexation documentaire
Economie sociale
Subject
School Aspirations; Aspiration Windows; Track choices; Inequality; Poverty Trap
Code JEL
I.I3.I32; I.I2.I21
Nom de la revue
The Economic Journal
Date de publication
06-2020
Nom de l'éditeur
Oxford University Press
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa077
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/21611
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Auteur
Guyon, Nina
Huillery, Élise
163511 Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Résumé en anglais
Socially disadvantaged students are less likely to aspire to the top educational pathways than their advantaged classmates who have the same test scores. We identify two behavioural biases that explain most of this gap: socially disadvantaged students are less aware of the top educational pathways and underestimate their academic ability relative to their advantaged peers. We also find that lower educational aspirations at a point in time are associated with poorer school outcomes later on, after controlling for many important factors. Debiasing aspirations through information campaigns and self-esteem building programmes could thus help reduce social inequality in educational attainment.

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