Arbeitspapier

Inequality, Opting-out and Public Education Funding

We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread increases tax rates and public school enrollment, but decreases public spending per student in low income economies, while it has opposite effects at high income levels. An increase in the average income level can also have non-monotonic effects.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5115

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Publicly Provided Private Goods
Analysis of Education
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Thema
education funding
inequality
political economy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Arcalean, Calin
Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2014

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Arcalean, Calin
  • Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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