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The impact of educated labor on technology adoption and comparative advantage

Shikher, Serge - 2015

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Gender, comparative advantage and labor market activity in immigrant families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...

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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment

Bergman, Peter - 2015

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 …

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Parents' expectations about educational institutions during the pandemic : results of nationwide questionnaire research in Poland

Szczudlińska-Kanoś, Agnieszka; Marzec, Małgorzata; … - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-13

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 …

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A new time-use diary app to measure parental investments

Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Fort, Margherita; … - 2023

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442722

Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling

Gang, Ira N. - 1996

This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...

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Optimal education policies and comparative advantage

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Kneller, Richard; Riezman, Raymond … - 2009

We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the rest of the world. Lastly, the government...