We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …

We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual … admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … jump from the 44th percentile to the 74th percentile of the income distribution. The richness of the data allows me to …

quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence … of imperfect credit markets the education level with pure fee-financing is lower than the optimal level. If the credit … skilled mobile workers as tax-payers while - at least partially - free-riding on the other country’s provision of education …

generations. Its Pareto-improving abolition requires levying age-dependent taxes on the young. These being infeasible, abolition …

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …

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 …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …