We present a model that focuses on the links between location and educational choices in South African cities. Be comparing the Apartheid city and the post-Apartheid city, we show that the inequality in South Africa between blacks and whites decreases when Apartheid laws are removed.

We present a model that focuses on the links between location and educational choices in South African cities. By comparing the Apartheid city (in which both chooling and land use are restricted on the basis of race) and the post-Apartheid city (in which there no such restrictions), we show that...

Children of educated parents systematically perform better at school than children of uneducated parents. It is then natural, if the location of families in the city follows a socially stratified pattern, to observe differences in public school's performances even when they are identically financed.

This paper analyzes the role of the structure of skills in economic development through investment in human capital. With a lack of cresit market for education and the presence of indivisibilities in investment in human capital as well as of congestion in the educational system, the initial...

We investigate the balanced growth effects of pension pland on the rate of growth and on equality in a closed economy where individual decisions about education are the engine of growth. We distinguish between three different benefit rules: a Beveridgean one, a Bismarckian one depending on one's...

This paper analyzes a competition game between two universities that teach and research in the same juridiction. The resulting equilibrium is unique and symmetric but differs according to preferences, technologies and public policy. The bydget for university finance is exogenously givenand...