To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy. NBER Working Paper No. 13319

Autor/inn/en	de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Titel	To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy. NBER Working Paper No. 13319
Quelle	(2007) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Private Schools; Democracy; Educational Finance; Political Power; Public Education; Politics of Education; Theories; Family Income; Comparative Analysis; United States; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Private school; Privatschule; Demokratie; Bildungsfonds; Politische Macht; Öffentliche Erziehung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Theory; Theorie; Familieneinkommen; USA
Abstract	The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different societies make different choices regarding the mix of private and public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public schooling expenditures. In a given political environment, high income inequality leads to more private education, as rich people opt out of the public system. More private education, in turn, results in an improved quality of public education, because public spending can be concentrated on fewer students. Comparing across political systems, we find that concentration of political power can lead to multiple equilibria in the determination of public education spending. The main predictions of the theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA study. (As Provided).
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