Integrated public education, fertility and human capital

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This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. I demonstrate that the poor, who cannot opt out, incur greater costs than the rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and derive a condition that determines precisely whether this policy increases or decreases the average level of human capital in society.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3545

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Demographic Economics: General
• Subject: public education ; private education ; integration ; fertility ; human capital ; Allgemeinbildende Schule ; Soziale Integration ; Soziale Schicht ; Privatschule ; Fruchtbarkeit ; Bildungsinvestition ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Azarnert, Leonid V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49522
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET