Household leverage and education expenditure: the role of household investment
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101837
Abstract: Abstract Household education expenditure is critical for children's human capital accumulation; however, households may experience leverage load and thus may reduce their spending on children. In this paper, we employ a unique survey conducted by… read more here.
Keywords: education; household; household leverage; education expenditure ... See more keywords
Shared agency: The dominant spouse’s impact on education expenditure
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.006
Abstract: In this paper, we consider whether it is the gender of the decision maker or the extent of agency that they wield that is crucial to increasing household welfare. This is an important question as… read more here.
Keywords: education expenditure; dominant spouse; spouse; impact education ... See more keywords
Guns for Butter? Empirical Evidence from China
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2017.1293791
Abstract: Abstract This study examines the causal nexus between defence spending and education expenditure in China using the bootstrap Granger full-sample causality test and sub-sample rolling window estimation. The full-sample result indicates that there is no… read more here.
Keywords: education; defence spending; education expenditure; defence ... See more keywords