Esther Gehrke is Assistant Professor of Economics at Wageningen University and Research. She is an applied microeconomist with interests in development, education, agriculture, and demography. Her current research projects largely focus on human capital investment decisions – of parents who are confronted with uncertainty about whether their children might have to drop-out of school early in rural areas of India, of adolescents in Cambodia who lack guidance about possible career paths, and of students in Mexico who are confronted with worsening immigration prospects to the US.