Teodora Boneva
University of Oxford
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Oxford
NBER Working Papers and Publications
January 2019 | Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children
with Orazio Attanasio, Christopher Rauh: w25513
Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children’s later-life outcomes. In this paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time investments, material investments and school quality, as well as the complementarity/substitutability between the different inputs. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of weekly parental time investments or £30 of weekly material investments to matter more than moving a child to a better school. Parents perceive the returns to time and material investments to be diminishing and perceive material investments as more productive if children attend higher quality schools. Perceived... |
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