We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and lower labor supply of youths in El Salvador households connected to migrant study participants. We fi...

This paper develops a model of intellectual labor augmentation to explain both the marriage wage premium and educational assortative mating. We suggest that husbands and wives are complementary factors of production where a spouse’s education and skills augment their partner’s productivity and earnings potential. We test this proposition using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and th...

This chapter discusses the theoretical and empirical issues relevant to the study. The chapter consists of 8 parts. Section 3.1 provides the theoretical background for educational investments. Section 3.2 discusses the benefits of education. Section 3.3 discusses the costs of education. Section 3.4 discusses the concepts of net present value and internal rate of return. Section 3.5 outlines the...

The purpose of this article is to examine if educational homogamy patterns are associated intergenerationally, the extent which today’s couples homogamous, and how translates into levels family income financial overall well-being. To these relationships, 28 years longitudinal data from British Columbia Paths on Life’s Way project employed. First, changes in marital status, completion, examined ...

Are low levels of schooling infrastructure—in particular, access to secondary schools— and low schooling investment solely the result of failed educational policies, or do they reflect the low school demand that stems from slow economic growth? This paper examines this question by analyzing a large data set in a framework that bases human capital investment on expected returns to schooling. It ...

This chapter discusses the theoretical and empirical issues relevant to the study. The chapter consists of 8 parts. Section 3.1 provides the theoretical background for educational investments. Section 3.2 discusses the benefits of education. Section 3.3 discusses the costs of education. Section 3.4 discusses the concepts of net present value and internal rate of return. Section 3.5 outlines the...

iranian female participation rate in the labor market of iran in the recent decade shows a increasing trend which amounted from 8% in 1999 to 18% in 2005.using parametric and non-parametric econometrics methods, in this research we aim to study the behavior of individual married females labor participation. our dataset consist of the annually budget survey of 2006 which is reported by statistic...

If the marginal gains from investment in physical capital depend positively on knowledge, but a household cannot hire skilled labor to compensate for low skills, then even if it has access to credit, the household will achieve lower returns than an educated household. If, as is common, the income-poor are less well educated because of credit market failure and living in areas with worse access ...

We use a unique data source to examine postimmigration investments in education among four immigrant groups in the Netherlands. We derive hypotheses from the Immigrant Human Capital Investment model (IHCI), which argues that immigrants' investments are an outcome of settlement intentions, skill transferability, and opportunity costs. The multinomial and ordered logistic regression analyses show...

OBJECTIVES The aims of the study were to determine the prevalence, types and socio-economic correlates of consanguineous marriages in Iran, and to gauge the extent to which consanguinity influenced fertility, pregnancy outcomes and the expression of genetic disorders in the present-day population. METHODS Data on the prevalence of consanguinity and birth outcomes in the first marriages of 5,5...