Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7661

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Education and Economic Development ; Education: Government Policy
• Subject: political leaders ; primary education ; school achievement ; political institutions

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Diaz-Serrano, Luis ; Pérez, Jessica
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89989
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET