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 …

children invest in post-compulsory education, subject to an endogenous credit constraint, and taking policy as given. There are … two policy tools: a subsidy to those who participate in education and a proportional income tax. Not all children … support a reduction, while the quot;middle-classquot; supports an expansion, of the education subsidy. Public support of …

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 …

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …

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 …

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal … participation has significant and negative effects on years of education and labor market outcomes. However, the effects are small …

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an … future demand for education. This demand shift implies that the initial subsidy per student becomes too expensive to be … politically sustainable. Despite a voters' backlash that curbs education subsidies, overall enrolments continue to rise. But the …

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … with increasing global integration, developing countries have strong incentives to shift public education expenditures … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …

In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To … education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the productivity of private education choices. We allow public … education spending, as share of output, to respond to various aggregate indicators in an attempt to minimize the market …

We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …