experimental evidence shows that families' misperceptions about the returns to education play a large role in their low investment … levels. This paper builds a model of human capital and growth that incorporates an adaptive learning mechanism to capture the … way agents form perceptions about returns to education. In an economy where human capital investments have both private …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …

investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the …

In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical … by the Italian Ministry of Education. We consider three different groups of educational inputs: individual …, cultural resources and aspirations. In addition to the standard gradient represented by parental education and occupation, we …

feedback as the main driving force of learning to play strategically and to form beliefs that accurately predict the behavior …