Les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne ont realise de remarquables progres vers l'achevement universel du cycle primaire.Un nombre croissant de jeunes vont se presenter a la porte du secondaire dans les annees a venir et la pression, deja forte aujourd'hui, va s'accroitre et requerir l'extension des...

In some circumstances, politicians set about altering the composition of their electorate with a view to increasing their chances of being re-elected. A hypothesis along these lines is formulated in the context of local elections and residential mobility. Although the hypothesis is general, an...

This article proposes an approach to answering two questions: first, does investment in education help growth; second, does the allocation of investment in education matter? I develop a model where individual ability is heterogeneous and education both ...