recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …

The paper analyzes the case of Belgium to provide insight into the relationships among ethnic heterogeneity, voting … participation and local economic growth. We find that heterogeneity, and external and internal mobility reduce immigrants’ voting … participation, while we do not find support for the hypothesis that voting participation is related to local economic growth, with …

In this paper, we provide evidence that compensatory education policies that target schools in socially deprived areas …-based compensatory education policies, since they tend to avoid schools that enter the RAR program by enrolling in the private sector. We …

interpreted as the reduced form of various political economy models of voting and lobbying. We consider three special cases: a … median voter model, a probabilistic voting model, and an ‘influence for sale’ model. In all three cases conditions exist that …