This study examines the extent to which the transition from university education to work is characterized by persistent …

structure contribute more to sibling similarities in crime than parental income and education or neighborhood characteristics …

undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … affected the calculus for instilling sexual mores. As contraception has improved there is less need for parents, churches and …

difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …

differences in parents' involvement in education. We find that a non-negligible part of the test score racial gap can be explained … by these cultural differences. In particular, we show that if non-white parents would invest in education of their 11 … year-old children as much as white parents do, then the racial test score gap in reading and mathematics would be reduced …

can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual … education system, under which the individuals who take education become bilingual, with a unilingual system, under which the … optimal when education levels are centralized. In the decentralized equilibrium, individuals (i) vote over education systems …

campaign in Uganda aimed at reducing capture of public funds by providing schools (parents) with information to monitor local … officials' handling of a large education grant program. Combining survey and administrative data, we show that the campaign was …

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …