Parents' Investments in the Quality of Education: The Case of Ghana

Autor/in	Asadi, Ghadir
Titel	Parents' Investments in the Quality of Education: The Case of Ghana
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 28 (2020) 6, S.621-646 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
DOI	10.1080/09645292.2020.1822788
Schlagwörter	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; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausgaben; Schulleistung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Humankapital; Prädiktor; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton; Future; Society; Zukunft; Ausland; Elternverhalten; Elternwille; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Child labour; Kinderarbeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01