RT Journal Article
T1 The power of expectations on students’ years of schooling
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Prieto-Latorre, Claudia
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Familia y enseñanza
AB Both students and parents have expectations about students’ academic future. The present study analyses the influence of both sets of expectations when students are at age 15-16 on level of education achieved by students when they are 23-24 years old. For this purpose, a structural equation model is estimated by three-stage least squares, using panel data for the most populated Spanish region (Andalusia). Results show that when both students and parents expect degree level education (i.e. 16 years of schooling) the student seems to get quite close to achieving that level. They also show that socio-cultural variables, together with students’ cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes, seem to explain the mechanism of formation of expectations and students’ completed years of schooling.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2021
FD 2021-07-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37503
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37503
LA eng
NO Lopez-Agudo, L. A., Prieto-Latorre, C., Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O. D. (2021). The power of expectations on students’ years of schooling. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 10(2), 295-312. doi: 10.7821/naer.2021.2.712.
NO This work has been partly supported by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (under Research Project ECO2017-88883-R); the FEDER funding (under Research Project UMA18FEDERJA024) and the Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces (under Research Project PRY085/19). We also acknowledge the scholarship FPU2017-00432 of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports [Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte] and the training received from the University of Malaga PhD Program in Economics and Business [Programa de Doctorado en Economía y Empresa de la Universidad de Malaga].
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026