public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public …The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In … of education. In this study, we ask why different societies make different choices regarding the mix of private and …

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an … expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … on education does not make up for the negative effects of increased parental absences. However, if the migration …

The present paper examines the short-run distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of … the 2004/5 Household Budget Survey. The aggregate distributional impact of public education is found to be progressive … although the incidence varies according to the level of education under examination. In-kind transfers of public education …

presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives … the conditional distributions of pay and school outcomes reflect variation in performance that is not observable in the … they may not be directly rewarded, school principals appear to act as agents for students in danger of dropping out …

find it difficult to escape poverty. If children's school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it … boost school attendance so as to reduce child work. Hence, this article examines the effects of schooling costs upon both … children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between …