We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation …

education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can … therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an … future demand for education. This demand shift implies that the initial subsidy per student becomes too expensive to be … politically sustainable. Despite a voters? backlash that curbs education subsidies, overall enrolments continue to rise. But the …

-sectional character of most available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors like culture. This chapter …