This paper tries to investigate educational preferences of parents over their child's education using survey data from … examine the presence of gender bias in preference pattern of parents. Our results document that in addition to educational and … income status of parents' autonomy enjoyed by female in the family and dowry being exchanged at the time of parents' own …

This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of the analogy of higher education to a for-profit industry where … schools are seen as firms and students as customers. …

Although considerable effort has been expended on measuring the returns to education in the U.S. and on modeling the …

been especially rapid for women who are, today, better educated than men. The importance of the education and income of …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers … also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …