@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4907,
            	author={Barón, Juan D. and Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.},
            	title={Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?},
            	year={2010},
	month={Apr},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4907},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4907},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={locus of control;parental socio-economic background;education},
            }