Understanding the motives and consequences of parents' educational investment : Competition, Parental Aversion, and Intergenerational mobility.

• Project/Area Number: 24K16383
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 07050:Public economics and labor economics-related
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kang Hyunjae 京都大学, 経済研究所, 助教 (90993668)
• Project Period (FY): 2024-04-01 – 2027-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2024: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: Parental Investment / Competition / Parental Aversion / Bequest

Outline of Research at the Start

This project explores education investment motives and impacts. Using structural models, I investigate the effect of demographics on demand of parental investment, and parental altruism towards siblings' education. The models are to be estimated using Korean, Colombian RCT,and Swedish datasets.