HOW LONG SHOULD WE STAY IN EDUCATION IF ABILITY IS SCREENED?
We examine how ability-screening affects demand for education and the shape of an optimal education system. Explicitly incorporating gradual screening by education into the model, we illustrate how individuals of different abilities decide to stay in education or drop out. Gradual screening induces low-ability individuals to receive over-education, reducing the net benefit obtained from education by society as a whole, as well as such individuals. A mixed education system, in which public education is provided before private education, is superior to a wholly private system, in terms of both efficiency and equity, because it reduces the over-education of low-ability individuals. Copyright © 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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2009
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Authors: | Oshio, Takashi ; Yasuoka, Masaya |
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Metroeconomica. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0026-1386. - Vol. 60.2009, 3, p. 409-431
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Wiley Blackwell |
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