Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay? This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are poor. An increasin...

Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure This paper uses a two-country model with integrated markets for high-skilled labor to analyze the opportunities and incentives for national governments to provide higher education. Countries can differ in productivity, and education is financed through a wage tax, so that brain drain affects the tax base and has agglomeration eff...

School Accountability: Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection? School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show that the trade-off between rew...

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies that the initial subsidy per student becomes too expensive to be politically sustainable. Despite a vo...

we study the effect of education and its expenditures, especially in higher education, on poverty and income inequality. using the keynesian approach it is shown that education, from the theoretical point of view, lowers poverty and income inequality level. in an empirical work we, used the data including 111 observations from 91 countries, with different human development levels, and concluded...

The issue of social development has attracted global attention especially in countries that have huge resources without commensurate reflection on welfare. Some developed levy heavy taxes their citizens' income but provide adequate facilities to drive the economy. African oil-producing ones, long relied crude oil revenue recently realize need improve tax collection. In view fact constitutes lar...

During the Great Recession, national public school per-pupil spending fell by roughly 7 percent and persisted beyond recovery. The impact of such large sustained education funding cuts is not well understood. To examine this, first, we document that recessionary drop in coincided with end decades-long growth both test scores college-going. Next, show this stalled educational progress was partic...