Essays about: "parental human capital"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the words parental human capital.

  1. 6. A Matter of Gendered Investment: Impacts of Internal Migration on Child Education in Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Paul Philipp Lambert Berbée; [2017]
    Keywords : Internal migration; Parental absence; Human capital investment; Gender; Intra-household bargaining; Social Mobility; Migrant Selectivity; Fixed effects; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study evaluates investments in education and schooling outcomes of children in households that engage in internal migration. Using panel data from Indonesia, community and household fixed effects are employed to account for unobserved heterogeneity and self-selection of migrants. READ MORE

  3. 7. Does parental origin reflect the labor market outcome? : Study of differences between native Swedes and second generation immigrants

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Jens Ekblom; [2016]
    Keywords : Second generation immigrants; parental human capital; labor market outcome; Andra generations invandrare; Föräldrars human kapital; arbetsmarknadsutgång;

    Abstract : Sweden is a country with an increasing foreign born population, where more and more people growing up with two parents born outside of Sweden. In this paper I examine the different labor market outcome for native Swedes and the six largest groups of second generation immigrants in the ages 30-39 years. READ MORE

  4. 8. Migration, Remittances and Education: A Review of the Educational Performance of Left-behind Children in Rural China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Keqin Zhu; [2015]
    Keywords : Parental migration; Rural-urban; China; Remittance; Left-behind children; Educational performance; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The massive rural-urban population flow has been proceeding in China for decades ever since the 1980s. Millions of labor migrants move to industrialized cities for a better future for themselves, as well as their families. The increasing amount of migrants has led to the phenomenon of the “left-behind”. READ MORE

  5. 9. Parental Education and Child Human Capital: Evidence from Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Anne Hoffmann; [2013]
    Keywords : parental education; human capital; child health; child skills; child education; development economics; Indonesia; IFLS; school construction; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper exploits one of the largest school construction programs on record, which took place in Indonesia in the 1970s, to estimate the causal effect of parental education on child human capital. I use variation in program exposure as an instrument for maternal and paternal length of schooling. READ MORE

  6. 10. Fathers on leave : Association between fathers’ use of the parental leave and their relative resources in Sweden

    University essay from Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Ahmed Farah; [2011]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Parents’ financial and human capital resources, especially, that of the mother have been shown to be an important component contributing to parents’ division of the parental leave. In this study the effect of relative resources on fathers’ use of the parental leave are considered. READ MORE