Social Inequality in Student Expectations and Higher Education Enrollment - A Comparison between the United States and Germany
| Autor: | Andrea Gabriele Forster, Anna Katyn Chmielewski, Herman Gerbert van de Werfhorst |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
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| Popis: | We examine the link between student expectations and educational attainment. While a close link between expectations and final educational attainment is assumed in thestatus attainment literature, a growing body of US literature has claimed that expectations have become increasingly unrealistic and decoupled from actual outcomes. However, this claim has rarely been investigated longitudinally on the individual level or beyond the context of the United States. We investigate the relationship for two educational systems with different institutional configurations: The United States and Germany. For Germany, we use data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS, Starting Cohort 4). For the US, we rely on data from the High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS, 2009). We find that the level of expectations is overall much higher in the US; however, we also find that the gap between SES groups is larger in the US. Furthermore, we find that the students in these two countries do not differ much in terms of the probability that they will realize their expectations. Additionally, the SES gradient of realization is fairly similar across the different institutional contexts. Finally, we also find that expectations do mediate a substantial part of the effect of SES on higher |
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