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assumptions: there are non-convexities in human capital investments and parents cannot borrow to finance their children …'s education. The model shows that poor and middle-income parents will often find it optimal to channel human capital investments … into a few of their children, thus creating sizable inequalities among siblings. The predictions of the model are …
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experimental dataset disaggregated by individual children and parents. The findings of the study show that parents reinforce the …This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It … educational achievements of their children. Educational investment does not vary by the gender of children. Instead, parental …
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the production function, they invest more in higher-achieving children. Resources are important, as constrained parents … developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a lab-in-the-field experiment with poor parents in …
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We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …
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We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495868
Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
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