This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time …

vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration … influences the succeeding education policy. More surprisingly, the prospect of voting on education policy also affects the … their preferred education policy is more successful at the polls. We show how a 'joint' analysis of the institutional and …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education … experience. We find that both government expenditures in education and attendance to early child care are associated with better …

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 …

attractive if they can be made both expressively and instrumentally appealing. This paper studies education policy in England and … proposes that arguments for increased state spending in school education is expressively appealing as it appears equitable, but …. Allocation to schools by lottery may be expressively but not instrumentally appealing. Cutting education spending and dividing …

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education … Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education … policies ranging from early childhood education and schools to the apprenticeship system, universities, and lifelong learning …