Resources and Standards in Urban Schools Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative – Excellence in Cities – which has been a flagship policy aimed at raising standards in inner-city seconda...

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to publicly or privately funded schools. Four m...

Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or national level, trying to control for other exogenous effects. Although this line of research shows in ...

Yemen is off track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. Its net enrolment ratio in primary education is far from being satisfactory, especially for females. The empirical analysis of this paper suggests that there is ample scope for Government intervention, though, so as to enable the attainment of education goals, including for higher educational c...

Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and his colleagues for supplying us with the microdata used in this analysis. Andrew Norton, John Quiggin, Maria Racionero, Chris Ryan, Susanne Schmidt, seminar participants at the ATO, Macquarie University and the University of Queensland, two anonymous referees and editor Paul Miller provided valuable comments and suggestions on earlier drafts. None of the abo...

In the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model we study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers. They are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers’ collective bargaining agreement which equalizes teacher pay. Our model features two stages of education: basic and advanced, the latter be...

In repeated games with di®erential information on one side, the labelling \general case" refers to games in which the action of the informed player is not known to the uninformed, who can only observe a signal which is the random outcome of his and his opponent's action. Here we consider the problem of minimizing regret (in the sense ̄rst formulated by Hannan [8]) when the information available...