despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty …

liberalization. Comparing trade and education policy, we find that targeted education subsidies are more effective than tariffs as a …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …