Integrated public education, fertility and human capital
This paper analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents integration in public education decreases their children's human-capital levels. I demonstrate that the poor, who cannot opt out, incur greater costs than the rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and derive a condition that determines precisely whether this policy increases or decreases the average level of human capital in society.
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2014
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Authors: | Azarnert, Leonid V. |
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Education Economics. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0964-5292. - Vol. 22.2014, 2, p. 166-180
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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