Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295625 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 16/20
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study the determinants and consequences of educational and occupational aspirations. Basing our enquiry on the British NCDS 1958 cohort data, we assess the importance of aspirations for social mobility above and beyond other established determinants. We document educational and occupational inequalities in young individuals' aspirations, whereby parental aspirations are a strong predictor of children's aspiration-levels. While we find a positive correlation between aspirations and later achievement, we also provide evidence for reduced well-being in adulthood if aspirations in adolescence were higher than actual achievements later in life.
Subjects: 
Aspirations
intergenerational mobility
life satisfaction
longitudinal study
CAMSIS score
UK
JEL: 
I21
I24
J62
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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