In this thesis I analyze the households’ decisions regarding education. While education increases the child’s future earnings, there is an opportunity cost related to schooling. The parents’ decision to send their child to school or work depends on the comparison of costs and benefits from education. In the first chapter I investigate the impact of adult mortality on the parents’ decisions to educate their children. I show that the parents under or overinvest in their child’s education depending on the direction of intergenerational transfers. The latter is determined by the relative parental and filial level of altruism and productivity. In the second chapter I show how low enrollment rates may have a negative impact on the level of public...
This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public pol...
This thesis focuses on the economics of child labour and child education within developing and deve...
An optimal education subsidy formula is derived using an overlapping generations model with parental...
In this thesis I analyze the households’ decisions regarding education. While education increases th...
This thesis is composed of three essays on economics of education. The first chapter is co-authored ...
The dissertation is a collection of 3 articles. The first estimates two types of models to investiga...
This work consists of three essays organized into chapters that seek to answer questions at first si...
Access to basic education as well as quality and equity of education systems in developing countries...
Access to basic education as well as quality and equity of education systems in developing countries...
This dissertation is composed by four chapters studying the accumulation of human capital at differe...
This dissertation focuses on the economics of education in developing countries with a particular fo...
Le résumé en français n'a pas été communiqué par l'auteur.This thesis is composed of three chapters....
This study focuses on parents´ involvement in primary education in the marginalized areas of Guayaqu...
This paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of overlapping generations with het...
In my thesis, I evaluate the effects of educational policy interventions. Educational outcomes are i...
This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public pol...
This thesis focuses on the economics of child labour and child education within developing and deve...
An optimal education subsidy formula is derived using an overlapping generations model with parental...
In this thesis I analyze the households’ decisions regarding education. While education increases th...
This thesis is composed of three essays on economics of education. The first chapter is co-authored ...
The dissertation is a collection of 3 articles. The first estimates two types of models to investiga...
This work consists of three essays organized into chapters that seek to answer questions at first si...
Access to basic education as well as quality and equity of education systems in developing countries...
Access to basic education as well as quality and equity of education systems in developing countries...
This dissertation is composed by four chapters studying the accumulation of human capital at differe...
This dissertation focuses on the economics of education in developing countries with a particular fo...
Le résumé en français n'a pas été communiqué par l'auteur.This thesis is composed of three chapters....
This study focuses on parents´ involvement in primary education in the marginalized areas of Guayaqu...
This paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of overlapping generations with het...
In my thesis, I evaluate the effects of educational policy interventions. Educational outcomes are i...
This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public pol...
This thesis focuses on the economics of child labour and child education within developing and deve...
An optimal education subsidy formula is derived using an overlapping generations model with parental...