Does a generous welfare state crowd out student effort? Panel data evidence from international student tests
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Student achievement has been identified as an important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the hypothesis that redistributive government activities have a negative effect on investment in human capital using data from international comparative student achievement tests in Mathematics and Science for over 70 countries during the period 1980 to 2003. In fixed effects models, the impact on student achievement of both government consumption and government social expenditures are negative and seem to be robust across different model specifications. The effect of social expenditures appears to be driven by spending on pensions and active labor market policies. !! Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dragvoll, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway, e-mail: [email protected] ++ Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, SE-11383 Stockholm, Sweden, and Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universitaet Konstanz, Switzerland, e-mail: [email protected]
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