%0 Report
        %A Barón, Juan D.
%A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
        %T Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4907
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4907
        %X 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.
        %K locus of control
%K parental socio-economic background
%K education