This paper studies the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education system, which is characterized … congestion in public school; (2) lower average tax base for education funding; (3) reduced low-skilled wage and so more low …-skilled natives to privately invest in their children’s education and hence weakens their support to finance public school. The …

This paper studies the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education policy, which is formulated by … tax base for education funding; (3) reduced low-skilled wage and so more low-skilled natives’ dependence on public … education; (4) higher skill premium, which induces high-skilled natives to privately invest in their children’ s education and …

modern, conceptually clear and easy to mobilize in policy design. In this paper, we apply Roemer’s theory to education policy … close to the end of compulsory education). Using Brazilian data, we find that implementing an equal-opportunity policy … education production function, we then identify ways of reducing financial reallocations needed to achieve equality of …

In most democracies, the majority of education expenditures is financed by the government. In non-democracies, we … observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality … tend to rely more heavily on private schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private decision on education and …