Educational Aspirations and Inequality: Determinants of High School Students’ Intentions to Pursue Higher Education Across Selected Countries

Debora da Silva Antonio
Educational Aspirations and Inequality: Determinants of High School Students’ Intentions to Pursue Higher Education Across Selected Countries Abstract Educational aspirations shape students’ life trajectories yet remain unequally distributed across socioeconomic and family contexts. This article investigates determinants of high-school students’ intentions to pursue higher education using 2022 PISA data. A multinomial logit model estimates the effects of individual, family, school, and regional.