Parental schooling is widely thought to improve child outcomes. But most studies on parental-child relations are associative, without control for estimation problems, such as unobserved intergenerationally-correlated endowments, if causality of interest. The few exceptions relatively recent that focus high-income countries (HICs), with their much different contexts than the low- and middle-inco...

The extensive literature on individual returns to education has been very influential on the thinking of economists and policymakers alike regarding the optimal amount of education for an individual and also the kinds of intervention that governments can or should undertake in educational markets. Wolfe and Haveman argue that many important social and nonmarket returns from schooling are being ...

in this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. primarily, we seek to re-interpret guy debord’s (1967) work the society of the spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within north america (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). in addition, we aim to utilize debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

in this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. primarily, we seek to re-interpret guy debord’s (1967) work the society of the spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within north america (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). in addition, we aim to utilize debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

Conventional wisdom is that: (1) mother’s schooling has widespread positive substantial effects on child education; (2) these effects tend to be much larger than those of father’s schooling; and (3) therefore, ceteris paribus, there is a stronger efficiency case (given education externalities) for subsidies for female than for male schooling. This paper first discusses a general framework for t...