We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find … evidence that FiF students are less likely to graduate from elite universities and have a higher probability of dropping out …