policymakers in the field of education. The papers show how state monopoly provision of education has led to a particular model of … schooling which does not work for many of those who use the education system - parents and children. Perhaps the most valuable … contribution of these papers is their historical analysis. The extent to which education systems developed in the UK and the USA …

privatization of tertiary education comes with a vast reduction in the number of students, an increase in the college wage premium … and longrun welfare losses of around 5 percent. Surprisingly, we find that from privatization of tertiary education …

In this paper we characterize quantitativelya the optimal mix of progressive income taxes and education subsidies in a … the incentives to acquire higher education, generation a non-trivial trade-off for the benevolent utilitatian government …. The latter distortion can potentially be mitigated by an education subsidy. We find that the welfare-maximizing fiscal …

The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education … reflects the widely-held belief that education is necessary for personal and societal well-being. The economic organization of … education depends on political as well as market mechanisms to resolve issues that arise because of contrasting views on such …