This paper looks at how countries have mobilized additional resources for education and assesses their impact on access and learning outcomes, using the World Bank's new Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling measure. The paper shows that global spending on education has risen significantly over...

This article estimates the market value of public education by comparing standardized test scores of students in public and private schools. The idea is to assign to the education of each public school student a market value equivalent to the tuition paid by private school students with similar...

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a European economy with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate...

Dass das Bildungswesen in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich gerade einmal als höchstens mittelmäßig beschrieben werden kann, darüber besteht überraschenderweise ein breiter gesellschaftlicher Konsens. Akteure aus allen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen - den Gewerkschaften, den...