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Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders in office and find that the educational attainment of population increases when a more educated leader remains in office. Furthermore, we also observe that the educational attainment of the population is negatively impacted when a country transitions from an educated leader to a less educated one. This result may help to explain the previous finding that more educated political leaders favor economic growth.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7661

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Economic Development
Education: Government Policy
Thema
political leaders
primary education
school achievement
political institutions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Diaz-Serrano, Luis
Pérez, Jessica
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2013

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Diaz-Serrano, Luis
  • Pérez, Jessica
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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