pay their parents to do so, which can lead to inefficiently low levels of investments. Estimating the model to match key …

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the …

sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …

conditions have turned out to be particularly difficult for parents who, due to changes in the organization of the education … for cooperation between schools and parents proposed in this study, it will be possible to reduce the risk and uncertainty … questionnaire was provided to a sample of 10,331 respondents, including 7800 professional parents, in a trial form before a …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents … inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …