This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

problematic for the estimation of the schooling coefficient even if individual unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity are taken … into account. Overall, the findings support the dynamic approach to the estimation of wage-schooling models recently …