development economist, Philip H. Brown is an expert on the economics of poverty, education, and gender. Philip H. Brown has written extensively on these topics with a special focus on Chinese economic affairs. In 2006, he published a paper on the effect that parental education has on educational investment for children in rural China.

1. Research Finds Educated Parents
Invest More in Children's Education
By Philip H Brown, Economist

2. Introduction
• A development economist, Philip H. Brown is an expert on the
economics of poverty, education, and gender. Philip H. Brown has
written extensively on these topics with a special focus on Chinese
economic affairs. In 2006, he published a paper on the effect that
parental education has on educational investment for children in
rural China.
The economist found that more educated parents tend to invest
higher levels of goods and time in their children's education, even in
resource-constrained households. The more educated the parents
are, then the more they are willing to spend on schools supplies such
as books and the more time they are willing to invest in reading to
their children and helping them with their homework. They
probably do so because they expect higher returns on the education
of their children.

3. Children's Education
• He also discovered that if the mother completes an additional
year of education, the educational investments for her
children are higher both in terms of education-related goods
and time as compared to an additional year of education for
the father. In fact, when the mother obtains additional
education, it seems to result in a disproportionately higher
return on investment in children's education. According to
Brown’s research, the perceived returns for educational
investment are significantly higher for the children of more
educated mothers. Finally, he found that there is no
statistically significant evidence to suggest that any sort of
gender bias exists in the allocation of educational resources to
sons or daughters.