The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas

By Leonardo Bursztyn, Lucas C. Coffman. Journal of Political Economy, 2012

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Effect of Teacher–Family Communication on Student Engagement: Evidence From a Randomized Field Experiment (2013, background): “Several studies provide suggestive evidence that communicating with students’ families by phone results in positive academic benefits (Bittle, 1975; Bursztyn & Coffman, 2010; Chapman & Heward, 1982).”
• Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment* (2018, unknown): “, 1985) and empirical (Bursztyn and Coffman, 2012; Ashraf et al., 2016; Bau, 2016) literature has begun to consider how intra-household bargaining and incomplete con-”
• Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education (2011, unknown): “…to consider whether parents or children are the relevant agents in education decisions, since they may face different incentives (Berry, 2009; Burztyn & Coffman, 2012), hold different expectations about desired level of education and costs of investing (Attanasio & Kaufmann, 2009;…”
• Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2020, unknown): “[15] Bursztyn, Leonardo and Lucas Coffman (2012).”
• Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, unknown): “56 Bursztyn and Coffman (2012) Solicited whether parents would be willing to choose a cash transfer (CT) program over their a CCT program that included a feature which monitored children’s school attendance Survey data from 210 families with adolsecent children in Brazil Framed field…”
• How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth? (2013, background): “Bursztyn and Coffman (2012) interpret the preference for conditional transfers over larger unconditional ones observed in a sample of families in urban Brazil to information asymmetries in the context of different incentives between parents and their children.”