Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240949 
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2021
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[Journal:] Economica [ISSN:] 1468-0335 [Volume:] 88 [Issue:] 351 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 624-670
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Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
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The gap in university enrolment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey of German adults, 74% of university graduates, but only 36% of those without a university degree, favour university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university. Similarly, 75% of adolescents with university-educated parents, but only 51% without university-educated parents aspire to a university degree. Experimental provision of general return and cost information does not close the aspiration gap as treatment effects are at least as strong for individuals with a university background as for those without. Differences in economic preference parameters also cannot account for the educational aspiration gap.
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