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 …

, long-term care, and higher education …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on “peer group” effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the … public schools as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector …

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 …

endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …

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 …

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 …