location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We … also identify equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms. Finally, we show that the incentives to subsidy education …

immigrants of German descent and foreign origin persons. Education is a key indicator for future economic and social perspectives …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient’s demand for health services, and that …

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …

associated with part-time work decisions. Once such factors are controlled for, insignificant effects on reading and math scores …

demand for education. Although preserving the factor-price-equalization property of the global equilibrium approach, the …

, credentials earned) might serve as signals of a worker’s productivity, the practical importance of education-based signaling is … education from two states that use high school exit exams (Florida and Texas), we estimate that a diploma has little effect on …