earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education. The job search approach underlines the role of …

when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education, The job search approach underlines the role of …

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …

's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …

The paper sheds some light on the financial structures of higher education in Germany. Recently in several member … structures in the OECD countries and sheds some light on the higher education costs as well as parts to be borne by the public … information on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. The analysis over the whole lifecycle renders results …

The paper sheds some light on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. After describing higher … education in Germany the current stand of higher education financing within the single states is presented. In six states … renders results which proof that the higher education advantages are quite remarkable and might be a justification for more …

fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children …Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census …