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Institutions, Social Norms, and Educational Attainment
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Zhan, Crystal – Education Economics, 2017
Informal institutions are defined as socially shared rules that guide individuals' behaviors outside of officially sanctioned channels. This paper investigates the link between individual educational attainment and education-related informal institutions by examining second-generation immigrants in the USA. I measure the education-related informal…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Educational Attainment, Informal Education