Decision Regarding Aspiration, Belief, and Social Economic Status in Education and Job Market

关于教育和就业市场的愿望、信仰和社会经济地位的决定

• 批准号: 2858422
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2858422
• 关键词: Decision; Regarding; Aspiration; Belief; Social

This project is planned to consist of three parts. The first section is to understand how aspiration would affect pupils' effort in learning. Second, I plan to extend the study to a principal-agent game within a family. Then, I can discuss how gender and social economic factor would affect household investment or working decisions. Lastly, I will try to find a job market to implement the theory into field experiments.For the first study, I aim to understand how students form their self-aspiration and its effect on learning effort and job placement. In this study, I combine and adapt past models related to aspiration, effort, and income. Furthermore, I examine (1) whether pupils use Bayesian updating to update their aspirations, (2) whether the gap between aspiration and their true type would induce satisfaction and frustration effects on putting effort into learning, (3) how the aspiration differences would affect academic outcome or further in future income. In the preliminary result, I find people do follows the Bayesian updating but with a slightly negative bias from the theoretical prediction. The gap between aspiration indeed follows the inverse-U shape as past papers state. Within the suitable gap (slightly less than their type), it can reach the highest effort exertion and reach the optimal outcome.This study serves SDG goals 1, 4, 8, and 10. Aspiration is a crucial component of the educational development program. Many NGOs use parents' meetings or aspiration talks as complements to the educational resources transfer to improve education quality. Yet, rare studies examine how aspiration links to effectiveness in education. Our study examines the hypothesis and gives these organizations a better guide for future fieldwork on improving their educational achievement or job placement. Moreover, understanding different background profiles may lead to distinctive aspiration effects can also help us examine how to reduce educational inequality. By using this model, we can then analyze the influence of the background or development program that can increase future achievement through aspiration.

该项目计划由三个部分组成。第一部分是了解抱负如何影响学生的学习努力。其次，我计划将研究扩展到家庭内部的委托代理博弈。然后，我可以讨论性别和社会经济因素如何影响家庭投资或工作决策。最后，笔者将尝试在就业市场中将理论应用于实践。研究一，旨在了解学生自我抱负的形成及其对学习努力和就业的影响。在这项研究中，我联合收割机和适应过去的模型有关的愿望，努力，和收入。此外，我还研究了（1）学生是否使用贝叶斯更新来更新他们的愿望，（2）愿望和他们的真实类型之间的差距是否会导致满意度和挫折感的影响，把努力学习，（3）愿望的差异将如何影响学业成绩或进一步在未来的收入。 在初步结果中，我发现人们确实遵循贝叶斯更新，但与理论预测略有负偏差。正如过去的论文所指出的，抱负之间的差距确实遵循倒U形。在适当的差距内（略小于他们的类型），它可以达到最高的努力消耗，并达到最佳的结果。本研究服务于SDG目标1，4，8和10。抱负是教育发展计划的重要组成部分。许多非政府组织利用家长会或愿望讲座作为教育资源转移的补充，以提高教育质量。然而，很少有研究探讨抱负如何与教育效果联系起来。我们的研究检验了这一假设，并为这些组织提供了一个更好的指导，为未来的实地工作，提高他们的教育成就或就业安置。此外，了解不同的背景配置文件可能会导致不同的愿望效应也可以帮助我们研究如何减少教育不平等。通过使用这个模型，我们可以分析背景或发展计划的影响，可以通过愿望来增加未来的成就。