Royal aspirations

Entrepreneurial Aspirations

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” and, inspired by Lazear’s (2002) recent jack-ofall-trades hypothesis, focus specifically on the effects of varied experience on them. We report three main findings. First, entrepreneurial asp...

Bold Aspirations

Career aspirations and attainment RUNNING HEAD: CAREER ASPIRATIONS AND ATTAINMENT

In this paper we examine the associations between gender, family background, general cognitive ability (g) and career aspirations at early age, and career attainment in mid adulthood drawing on two large representative samples of the British population born in 1958 (N = 6,474) and in 1970 (N = 5,081). A developmental-contextual model of career development is tested in both age cohorts, using St...

Peroperative pancreatic aspirations.

Peroperative fine needle pancreatic aspirations were performed on 16 patients with suspected pancreatic masses during 1976 and 1977. Seven of the 16 aspirates demonstrated benign cells. Nine of the 16 revealed malignant cells, eight of which could be classified as to tumor type. This procedure provided a definitive diagnosis resulting in the appropriate surgery. The aspiration technique is high...

Poverty and Aspirations Failure*

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and ‘aspirations failure’, defined as the failure to aspire to one’s own potential. In our framework, rich and the poor persons share the same preferences and same behavioural bias in setting aspirations. We show that poverty can exacerbate the effects of this behavioural bias leading to aspirations failure and hence, a behav...