Adolescent educational expectations: Rationalized, fantasized, or both?

Rationality and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-162

  Morgan, Stephen L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Rational expectations; Returns to education

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044446914     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104346398010002001     Document Type: Article

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