Educational aspirations as a markovian process: A panel study of college and non‐college plans during high schoolFootnote†

The author would like to express his gratitude to Gene F. Summers, Director, Center of Applied Sociology for permission to use data from the Rural Industrial Development Project which was supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin‐Madison and by the National Institute of Mental Health, PHS Grant MH‐19689, Gene F. Summers and John P. Clark, Principal Investigators. The author would like to thank the readers for their helpful Comments and suggestions on this paper.

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