for both the public pay-as-you-go pension scheme and the public education system. Without labor mobility, each generation … a popular belief that increasing labor mobility decreases the incentives to finance the education of the subsequent …

-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young. This requires that labor is not … mobile. Furthermore, establishing public education may benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for …

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 …

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary … government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of … time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent governments. The two types of government differ in their education policies …

-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …