School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about …

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education … quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States … years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns …

marriage market into a significantly larger share of household income. Hence, men's incentive to invest in education decreases …This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse … women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household …

receiving high-quality marriage offers in the future and how this varies with age and education. We identify this model by … eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls’ education and this drives much of their …’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …