TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Barón, Juan D.
AU  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
        TI  - Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?
        PY  - 2010/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4907
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4907
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - locus of control
KW  - parental socio-economic background
KW  - education
        ER  -