Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - CESifo - 2011
We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing … on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two …-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in education and highlight two main determinants: the time to be devoted …