While a growing line of research has assessed the effect of trade liberalization on human capital formation, most of these existing studies focus on short term effect on individual's schooling attendance, and much less is known about it's long run effect, as well as the impact on other aspects...

In this paper we study the quantitative macroeconomic effects of public education spending in USA for the post-war period. Using comparable measures of human and physical capital, from Jorgenson and Fraumeni (1989, 1992a,b), we calibrate a standard dynamic general equilibrium model where human...

Public education is usually seen as having at least two desirable effects: fostering economic growth and reducing income inequality. This paper revisits both relations in a single model of occupational choice with an endogenous supply of teachers. First, we show that the impact of public...