The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … by alternative explanations. One of them is that participation aims not to increase education quality but rather to …

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …

WWII in France. In order to identify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the small group of people … graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles) remained stable, while the rest of the system experienced tremendous … cohorts that received more education have a lower wage gap, relative to Grandes Ecoles. We show that such a large scale …

argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the existence of diminishing returns to education that limit the extension …

Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas … existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben …-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining between the parent and the child. We develop a three-period OLG …