undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

-standing pattern that university participation rates are highest among youths from high-income families and of highly educated parents … parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data … background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long …

has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two …

may play substantively different roles. The findings suggest that university-going is less common among lower-income … students and members of a visible minority group in the U.S. than among their Canadian counterparts. Some possible reasons are …

income growth, wealth inequality and political participation. We predict that developing countries will tend to overinvest in …

children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …. Since formally educated children tend not to return, the ruling caste seeks to develop family loyalty by choosing religious …. Children from the ruling caste who are sent abroad have a lower probability of being sent to formal school. They are more …

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …