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| Title: | | Education and social mobility  |
| Authors: | | Cremer, Helmuth De Donder, Philippe Pestieau, Pierre |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2951 |
| Abstract: | | This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We show that when private education is available, the degree of elitism that maximizes social mobility increases, while the welfare-maximizing degree of elitism decreases. The ranking between the welfare- and mobility-maximizing degree of elitism may even be reversed. Utilitarian welfare is always higher when private supplementary education is available, but social mobility may be reduced. |
| Subjects: | | elitism egalitarianism private education |
| JEL: | | H52 I28 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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