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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization : Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources

Boucekkine, Raouf - 2017

of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the “awareness” of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …

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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition

Davidson, Carl - 2013

incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel - 2008

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Educational and Wage Risk : Social Insurance vs. Quality of Education

Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2021

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …

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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy

Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2021

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...

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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers

Bau, Natalie - 2017

This paper uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to present among the first estimates in a low-income country of (a) teacher effectiveness; (b) teacher value added (TVA) and its correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher...

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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation

Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019

This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated with country size (by population) and positively associated with the income level. The findings show that a country's openness to trade is positively associated with public...

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Should We Subsidize Longevity?

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...

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Individual Investments in Education and Health : Policy Responses and Interactions

Carbone, Jared C. - 2016

education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … education would require large imperfections in these markets to be more welfare improving than distributional policies …

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Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality

Grossmann, Volker - 2015

This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize the optimal joint design of the social insurance...

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