We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and …

incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for …

for massive public funding of higher education. Central to the debate is the conjecture that colleges and universities use … which public investment in higher education is efficient and desirable. We analyze non-stationary equilibria of an OLG … economy, characterized by perfect capital mobility, intergenerational transfers and a hierarchical education system. The …

This paper analyzes how integrated labor markets affect the financing of higher education. For this, we employ a …, governments can choose the quality of education and the financing system. At the second stage, individuals make their education … and migration decisions given the governmental framework for higher education and the mobility assumptions.In a closed …

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 …

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 …

We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form “loyal … citizens” and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected … category of expenditure are consistent with the role of indoctrination of public primary education …

analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …

income distribution that followed a massive public expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium … model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered by an increase in public education expenditure on behalf of … sized redistributive transfers. In the longer run, however, low-skilled workers eventually benefit more from the education …