Green, Francis;
Parsons, Samantha;
Sullivan, Alice;
Wiggins, Richard;
(2018)
Dreaming big? Self-valuations, aspirations, networks and the private-school earnings premium.
Cambridge Journal of Economics
, 42
(3)
pp. 757-778.
10.1093/cje/bex023.
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Abstract
An important axis of inequality in Britain is the private/state school divide. The success of private schools in Britain in delivering high academic achievements and better-paid jobs has been attributed to these schools engendering high self-evaluations, greater aspirations and social networks. Using recently repaired data on secondary school type from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we find that internal locus of control, aspirations and access to networks, but not self-esteem, are raised by private schooling. Locus of control and aspirations (but not networks or self-esteem) each have modest effects on earnings at age 42. Yet only a small part of the private school earnings premium is accounted for by all these factors. Much of the premium is due, rather, to educational attainments. This evidence suggests that strategies to strengthen self-evaluations or aspirations in state schools will contribute little on their own to the objective of greater equality or social mobility.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dreaming big? Self-valuations, aspirations, networks and the private-school earnings premium |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cje/bex023 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex023 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Non-cognitive skills, Locus of control, Self-esteem, Pay, Private school, Aspiration, Networks, Social mobility, Inequality |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571520 |
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