Gender and household education expenditure in Pakistan

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The relative effectiveness of government and private schools in Pakistan: are girls worse off? (2009, background): “This curiosity arose because of the recent finding by Aslam and Kingdon (2007) that intra-household educational expenditure allocations are significantly pro-male.”
Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure (2013, methodology): “conditional on w > 0, w|x follows a lognormal distribution.(4) One can obtain an estimate of γ from a probit using w = 0 versus w > 0 as the binary response.”
Education Gender Gaps in Pakistan: Is the Labor Market to Blame? (2009, result): “Moreover, while human capital theory hypothesizes a concave education-earnings profile and diminishing returns to human capital production, empirical evidence from various countries has challenged the prevailing view (see Behrman and Wolfe [1984] and Alderman and Sahn [1988] and more recently Ashraf”
Migrants’ International Transfers and Educational Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Albania (2010, result): “This corroborates the finding in Aslam and Kingdon (2008) and Mauldin et al (2001), where urban location is associated with higher education spending.”