PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Orazio Attanasio
AU  - Teodora Boneva
AU  - Christopher Rauh
TI  - Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.58.2.0719-10299R1
DP  - 2020 Sep 11
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0719-10299R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/09/01/jhr.58.2.0719-10299R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/09/01/jhr.58.2.0719-10299R1.full
AB  - Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we study how parents perceive the returns to parental time investments, material investments and school quality. Parents perceive the returns to 3h of weekly time investments or £30 of weekly material investments to matter more than moving a child to a better school. Material investments are perceived as more productive if children attend higher quality schools. Perceived returns do not differ with the child’s initial human capital or gender, and they are highly correlated with actual investment decisions.