We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in …

immigrants’ growing aspirations and expectations that follow from their habituation to better conditions in their host country …Immigrants in developed countries typically fail to assimilate in terms of subjective well-being, meaning that their … their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This contrasts with migrants’ own expectations and the …

realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. We first develop a …The higher our aspirations, the higher the probability that we have to adjust them downwards when forming more … theoretical framework to identify the factors that determine the effect of aspirations on expected utility. Then we present …

realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. We first develop a …The higher our aspirations, the higher the probability that we have to adjust them downwards when forming more … theoretical framework to identify the factors that determine the effect of aspirations on expected utility. Then we present …

whether admission barriers to higher education (HE) are a potential reason for this mismatch between educational aspirations … and expectations and whether they are more constraining for students from socially less advantaged backgrounds. It does so …. Empirically, the paper uses a unique combination of individual data on high school students’ educational aspirations and …

' more academically oriented career aspirations and expectations before leaving school. On the one hand, these higher …

and finance. The mid-19th century German Jewish immigrants settled throughout the country; often beginning as itinerant …-speaking Eastern European and Russian Jewish immigrants, who arrived primarily in the four decades starting in 1881, are the ancestors …