This collective approach to household consumption behavior tries to infer from variables supposed to affect general bargaining position of household members information on the allocation of consumptions goods and tasks among them. This paper investigates the extension of previous work to the...

This paper presents a simple model of the links between education, democratization and economic developmnet. In a context of imperfect capital markets, we investigate the incentives for a capitalist oligarchy to subsidize the education of poor workers and to initiate a political transition.

A prototype multicoutry static microsimulation model has benn built to simulate tax and social benefits in a number of European countries. This part of a prepatory study funded by the the EC to examine the possibility of builiding a comprehensive EU wide integrated microsimulation model. The...

This paper analyses the links between openness, education and inequality from a political economy point of view. We start by presenting various channels through which external liberalization may affect the pattern of educational responses and we derive the implications for inequality and...