Interpersonal influences on educational expectations: New evidence for Germany

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Abstract

Previous research casts doubt on whether interpersonal influences on students’ expectations exist in highly stratified education systems after students have been tracked into different secondary school types. Against this background, we examine the influence of parents and friends on the educational... view more

Previous research casts doubt on whether interpersonal influences on students’ expectations exist in highly stratified education systems after students have been tracked into different secondary school types. Against this background, we examine the influence of parents and friends on the educational expectations of secondary school students in the highly stratified German education system. For the analyses we use unique representative data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). In addition to standard cross-sectional analyses, school fixed-effects models and longitudinal fixed-effects panel regressions are conducted, which make it possible to rule out a large number of factors that might be responsible for a spurious relationship. Across all analyses, we consistently find substantive influences of parents and friends on the expectations of secondary school students.... view less

Keywords
education; influence; parental home; peer group; secondary school; course of education; school success; Federal Republic of Germany

Classification
Sociology of Education

Free Keywords
Bildungserwartung; Bildungsaspiartion; German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort 4-9th Grade, 2008-2013 (https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SC4:4.0.0)

Document language
English

Publication Year
2017

Page/Pages
p. 68-84

Journal
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2017) 48

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2016.12.001

ISSN
0276-5624

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0