The Power and Roots of Aspirations : A Survey of the Empirical Evidence (English)

Aspirations have become a common theme in empirical economics studies, but there is no unified understanding of the range of outcomes they influence, the factors that shape them, and how to measure them. This paper surveys this growing literature. The paper argues that there is compelling evidence to consider aspirations as a useful lens to analyze human behavior and development outcomes, at the individual and aggregate levels, in poorer and richer...

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Fruttero,Anna;

Muller,Noel;

Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar;
Document Date
2021/07/02
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9729
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2021/07/02
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Disclosed
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The Power and Roots of Aspirations : A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
Keywords
empirical study

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Fruttero,Anna; Muller,Noel; Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar.

The Power and Roots of Aspirations : A Survey of the Empirical Evidence (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9729 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332481625231659043

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