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Direct linkBozick, Robert; Alexander, Karl; Entwisle, Doris; Dauber, Susan; Kerr, Kerri – Social Forces, 2010
This study revisits the Wisconsin model of status attainment from a life course developmental perspective. Fixed-effects regression analyses lend strong support to the Wisconsin framework's core proposition that academic performance and significant others' influence shape educational expectations. However, investigating the process of expectation…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Causal Models, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged
Alexander, Karl; Bozick, Robert; Entwisle, Doris – Sociology of Education, 2008
This article examines the expectation to complete a bachelor's degree among a predominantly low-income, mainly African American, panel of Baltimore youths at the end of high school, at age 22, and at age 28. Across this time, stability is the modal pattern, but when expectations change, declines are more frequent than increases. Although…
Descriptors: Expectation, High School Students, College Attendance, Academic Aspiration
