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Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148296
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Welfare Implications of Public Education Spending Rules
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - 2021
In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To this end, we employ a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which human capital externalities and public education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316419
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Federalism, Fertility and Growth
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I find that local education finance yields higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316652
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz - 2011
to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in … increased immigrant shares on preferences for redistribution. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less … support for redistribution in the form of preferred social benefit levels. This reduction in support is especially pronounced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130420
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Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution
Roth, Christopher - 2017
We examine whether individuals' experienced levels of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We … their lives are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and … inequality and reduce their demand for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964374
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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added : A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079378
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What's the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?
Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2021
This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal data. Using this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318437
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Human Capital and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Katsimi, Margarita - 2007
In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to this change
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777642
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Public Funding of Higher Education
Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2011
Recent criticism from different sides has expressed the view that, with scarce resources, there is little justification for massive public funding of higher education. Central to the debate is the conjecture that colleges and universities use their resources inefficiently and focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119638
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Financing Higher Education in a Mobile World
Demange, Gabrielle - 2012
This paper analyzes how integrated labor markets affect the financing of higher education. For this, we employ a general-equilibrium model with overlapping generations and individuals who differ in their abilities. At the first stage, governments can choose the quality of education and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104571