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B Ravikumar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • public versus Private investment in human capital endogenous growth and income inequality
    Journal of Political Economy, 1992
    Co-Authors: Gerhard Glomm, B Ravikumar
    Abstract:

    In this paper, the authors present an overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents in which human capital investment through formal schooling is the engine of growth. The authors use simple functional forms for preferences, technologies, and income distribution to highlight the distinction between economies with public Education and those with Private Education. The authors find that income inequality declines more quickly under public Education. On the other hand, Private Education yields greater per capita incomes unless the initial income inequality is sufficiently high. The authors also find that societies will choose public Education if a majority of agents have incomes below average. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.

Gerhard Glomm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • public versus Private investment in human capital endogenous growth and income inequality
    Journal of Political Economy, 1992
    Co-Authors: Gerhard Glomm, B Ravikumar
    Abstract:

    In this paper, the authors present an overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents in which human capital investment through formal schooling is the engine of growth. The authors use simple functional forms for preferences, technologies, and income distribution to highlight the distinction between economies with public Education and those with Private Education. The authors find that income inequality declines more quickly under public Education. On the other hand, Private Education yields greater per capita incomes unless the initial income inequality is sufficiently high. The authors also find that societies will choose public Education if a majority of agents have incomes below average. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.

Moshe Justman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Religious Factor in Private Education in the United States
    Advances in the Economics of Religion, 2019
    Co-Authors: Danny Cohen-zada, Moshe Justman
    Abstract:

    This chapter provides a brief overview of our theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding the dominant role of the religious factor in Private Education in the United States. Private, fee-paying Education today accounts for 8% of enrollment in primary and secondary schools in the United States, down from a high of 14%, 50 years ago (Fig. 12.1); and about 80% of these Private school students attend religious schools, down from almost 90%, 30 years ago (Broughman and Swaim 2013; Fig. 12.2). The low overall rate of Private Education is largely a consequence of the historically dominant role of local school districts in funding public Education in the United States, coupled with socio-economic geographic segregation, which allows for substantial variation in the quality of public schools, and the general absence of tax credits for Private school tuition. The further recent decline in Private enrollment likely reflects the growth of publicly funded charter schools, as well as court-mandated funding reforms that increased state support for poorer school districts, and a decline in demand for Catholic Education.

  • The religious factor in Private Education
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Danny Cohen-zada, Moshe Justman
    Abstract:

    Abstract We quantify the religious factor in Private Education in the United States by calibrating a political economy model of school choice—among public, Private-nonsectarian and subsidized religious schools—in which parents differ in their incomes and in their preferences for religious Education. This shows strong latent demand for religious schooling, conditioned on current subsidized tuition levels in parochial schools, which is suppressed by the need to “pay twice” for Private Education. Applying the results of the calibration to gauge the effect of means-tested school voucher programs on religious and nonsectarian Private enrollment, we find that when the amount of the voucher is relatively small, including subsidized religious schools in such programs is necessary for providing low-income families effective access to Private Education.

Takashi Yamano - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • emerging Private Education in africa determinants of school choice in rural kenya
    World Development, 2013
    Co-Authors: Mikiko Nishimura, Takashi Yamano
    Abstract:

    The number of Private schools has increased by more than four times since the introduction of the Free Primary Education (FPE) policy in 2003 in Kenya. With the help of panel data obtained from rural Kenya, we observed that the proportion of children attending Private primary schools increased from 4.6% in 2004 to 11.5% in 2007. The estimation results suggest that parents react to the quality of public Education, as measured by the pupil–teacher ratios of public schools, by attending Private schools and transferring to different schools. Their reaction also depends on the wealth of households and gender.

Danny Cohen-zada - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Religious Factor in Private Education in the United States
    Advances in the Economics of Religion, 2019
    Co-Authors: Danny Cohen-zada, Moshe Justman
    Abstract:

    This chapter provides a brief overview of our theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding the dominant role of the religious factor in Private Education in the United States. Private, fee-paying Education today accounts for 8% of enrollment in primary and secondary schools in the United States, down from a high of 14%, 50 years ago (Fig. 12.1); and about 80% of these Private school students attend religious schools, down from almost 90%, 30 years ago (Broughman and Swaim 2013; Fig. 12.2). The low overall rate of Private Education is largely a consequence of the historically dominant role of local school districts in funding public Education in the United States, coupled with socio-economic geographic segregation, which allows for substantial variation in the quality of public schools, and the general absence of tax credits for Private school tuition. The further recent decline in Private enrollment likely reflects the growth of publicly funded charter schools, as well as court-mandated funding reforms that increased state support for poorer school districts, and a decline in demand for Catholic Education.

  • The religious factor in Private Education
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Danny Cohen-zada, Moshe Justman
    Abstract:

    Abstract We quantify the religious factor in Private Education in the United States by calibrating a political economy model of school choice—among public, Private-nonsectarian and subsidized religious schools—in which parents differ in their incomes and in their preferences for religious Education. This shows strong latent demand for religious schooling, conditioned on current subsidized tuition levels in parochial schools, which is suppressed by the need to “pay twice” for Private Education. Applying the results of the calibration to gauge the effect of means-tested school voucher programs on religious and nonsectarian Private enrollment, we find that when the amount of the voucher is relatively small, including subsidized religious schools in such programs is necessary for providing low-income families effective access to Private Education.