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Education, risk and efficiency in human capital investment
Mayston, David J.; Juan, Yang - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572191
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Education, Risk and Efficiency in Human Capital Investment
Mayston, David; Yang, Juan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
University of York Beijing Normal University The efficiency of the process of investment in human capital through education is of considerable importance both to the individuals involved and to the wider economy. The paper develops an analytical framework in which issues of the efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133557
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533076
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805337
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576871
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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
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Investment in tertiary education : main departments and implications for policy
Boarini, Romina; Oliveira-Martins, Joaquim; Strauß, Hubert - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 54 (2008) 2, pp. 277-312
Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003738593
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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo (contributor) - 2008
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered skills or alternative routes to acquiring skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793530
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Debt aversion and the demand for loans for postsecondary education
Eckel, Catherine C.; Johnson, Cathleen; Montmarquette, … - In: Public finance review : PFR 35 (2007) 2, pp. 233-262
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003444881
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Estimating cross-country investment in training : an experimental methodology using PIAAC data
Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; Marcolin, Luca; Horvát, Peter - 2015
The present work proposes a novel methodology for the measurement of investment in human capital in the form of training. Differently from existing studies, the expenditures-based approach pursued encompasses investment in formal and on-the-job training, as well as in informal learning and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403435