school either but remain idle instead. The conditions for a successful implementation of a half-day school vs. a full …-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families … of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school …

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …