To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
By David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke. Social Science Research Network, 2007
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How is the quality of public education affected by the presence of private schools for the rich? Theory and evidence suggest that the link depends crucially on the political system. We develop a theory that integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public schooling expenditures. We find that the presence of a large private education sector benefits public schools in a broad-based democracy where politicians are responsive to low-income families but crowds out public education spending in a society that is politically dominated by the rich. The main predictions of the theory are consistent with state-level data and micro data from the U.S. as well as cross-country evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment study. Copyright , Wiley-Blackwell.
Subfields: Demography, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition (2013, unknown): “A similar condition can be found in Moav (2005) and de la Croix and Doepke (2006), when parents face the standard fertility/education trade-off.”
- Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth (2016, methodology): “This approach follows Mauro (1997) in using different types of public spending to evaluate the effect of corruption, but also the suggestion of De La Croix and Doepke (2009), who model the different kinds of budgetary distortions that can be caused by corruption.”
- Families in Macroeconomics (2016, unknown): “The specific role of preference transmission in the context of the British Industrial Revolution is analyzed by Doepke and Zilibotti (2008). bb de la Croix and Doepke (2004, 2009) analyze the importance of this mechanism in the context of edu- cation policies. bc The parameters in the example are:…”