Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36761 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4907
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the requirements to obtain a university entrance rank. Moreover, those with an internal locus of control who obtain a university entrance rank achieve somewhat higher rankings than do their peers who have a more external locus of control. Not surprisingly, there is a negative relationship between growing up in disadvantage and educational outcomes. However, this effect does not appear to operate indirectly by increasing the likelihood of having a more external locus of control. In particular, we find no significant relationship between family welfare history and young people's locus of control.
Subjects: 
Locus of control
parental socio-economic background
education
JEL: 
I38
J24
H31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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