-provided education appears more suitable to students with culturally privileged family backgrounds and high observed ability. The …

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility …. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas … welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We show that when private education is available, the degree of …

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

schools lead to better student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading and to lower total education spending, even …

microcredits in Uzbekistan. Residents living closer to microfinance institutions are propensity score matched to those further away … using both household and village characteristics. Households located closer to microfinance institutions have larger …

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 …