Ambition gone awry: The long-term socioeconomic consequences of misaligned and uncertain ambitions in adolescence

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 959-977

  Sabates, Ricardo ^a   Harris, Angel L ^b   Staff, Jeremy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCOME; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INCOME; OCCUPATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 84865070277     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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