The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … 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 …

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

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 …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married …

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that …

parents have an intrinsic preference for help in time by family members. We first show that low (resp., high) income children … income class may give no family help at all, and its elderly members would be the main beneficiaries of the introduction of … most countries. First, social transfers are dominated by help in time by the family when the intrinsic preference of …

We demonstrate that the notion of a “family constitution” (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … family constitutions …