To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
CORE Discussion Paper No. 2003/82
39 Pages Posted: 25 May 2007
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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
Date Written: November 2003
Abstract
In most democracies, the majority of education expenditures is financed by the government. In non-democracies, we observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality tend to rely more heavily on private schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private decision on education and fertility with voting on public education expenditures. The theory is able to account for the facts mentioned above. Countries with high inequality exhibit more private education expenditures since rich people opt out of the public system. In non-democracies, concentration of political power leads to multiple equilibria in the determination of public education spending.
Keywords: Education funding, Inequality, Voting, Political Power, Segregation
JEL Classification: D72, I21, H42, E62
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