consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …

other MDGs, most notably primary education, there is a considerable gap between donor rhetoric and actual aid allocation …