Are young people's educational outcomes linked to their sense of control? [electronic resource] / Juan D. Barón and Deborah Cobb-Clark
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- Barón, Juan D
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- [Parkville, Vic.] : Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, 2010
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- 9780734042156
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- Melbourne Institute working paper (Online) ; no. 10/5.
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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.
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- "May 2010".
- "Our data come from the Youth in Focus Project ...".
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