Market Returns, Transfers and Demand for Schooling in Malaysia, 1976-89
利用1976和1989年马来西亚家庭生活调查数据，研究发现母亲的市场回报正向影响子女教育，而父亲的市场回报无显著作用；父母与祖辈相处时间对女儿教育有微弱正向影响，其他转移支付则有微弱负向影响。
If parents expect higher market returns to schooling or additional transfers from their children, they invest more in their children’s schooling. Results from models of schooling demand using data from the Malaysian Family Life Surveys of 1976 and 1989 suggest that market returns of mothers but not fathers positively affected schooling. The propensity for parents to spend time with their parents had a small positive effect on education of daughters, but other transfers had a weak negative effect. The results suggest that if one generation perceives a low return to schooling, then the next generation – especially daughters – pays the price of lower schooling. 1.