Investments into education—Doing as the parents did
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Investments into education - Doing as the parents did ∗
Empirical evidence suggests that parents with higher levels of education generally attach a higher importance to the education of their children. This implies an intergenerational chain transmitting the attitude towards the formation of human capital from one generation to the next. We incorporate this intergenerational chain into an OLGmodel with endogenous human capital formation. In absence ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Economic Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0014-2921
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.09.004