ERIC Number: EJ1275663
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0964-5292
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Parents' Investments in the Quality of Education: The Case of Ghana
Asadi, Ghadir
Education Economics, v28 n6 p621-646 2020
While school enrollment at the primary level has been rising in developing countries rapidly, international measures of education quality do not exhibit a parallel improvement. Since parents' expenditure is an important determinant of children's school performance, we investigate parents' investments on quality measured by their spending on books and other school materials. We develop an overlapping generations model in which parents use children's human capital as a screening measure for adjusting their investment. Our main hypothesis is that families consider better school performance to be a reliable predictor of future return, and this will incentivize them to invest more.
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Expenditures, Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Books, Instructional Materials, Human Capital, Predictor Variables, Investment, Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Child Labor, Gender Differences, Mathematics Achievement, Public Schools, Private Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ghana
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