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Smith, Herbert L.; Powell, Brian – Sociology of Education, 1990
Reports 1985 data on college seniors' income expectations for themselves, college peers, and high school peers who did not attend college. Finds that male and female respondents had informed expectations about other graduates' earnings, but differed sharply in expectations about their own incomes, with men being more likely than women to…
Descriptors: Aspiration, College Seniors, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research