Aspirations and Inequality

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Perceived Self-Efficacy, Poverty, and Economic Development (2017, background): “Thus, the PSE concept connects naturally to the emerging economic literature on aspirations (Dalton et al. 2016, Genicot & Ray 2014, Guyon & Huillery 2016), grit (Duckworth et al. 2007), and noncognitive skills in general (Cunha et al. 2010, Heckman & Kautz 2012, Heckman et al. 2006).”
Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India (2018, positive): “(3)Recent research highlights the role of aspirations in changing behavior and outcomes (Ray, 2016; Genicot and Ray, 2017).”
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia (2014, background): “The literature on aspirations highlights that people may form unrealistically high aspirations if they lack role models or “reference points” who come from similar backgrounds to them (Genicot and Ray, 2014; Ray, 2006).”