the empirical evidence, showing that recent work challenges convex preference theory but is largely consistent with … rational choice theory. Guided by this understanding, we design a new, more demanding test of a central tenet of economics …, we show that sharing choices violate the contraction axiom. We advance a new theory that augments standard models with …

public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …