Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21473 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 484
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government chooses educational spending to maximize its net benefits. In the jointly determined equilibrium, schooling quality is shown to depend on several institutionally determined parameters. The impact on student performance of institutions such as central examinations, centralization versus school autonomy, teachers' influence, parental influence, and competition from private schools is analyzed. Furthermore, the model can rationalize why positive resource effects may be lacking in educational production.
Subjects: 
educational production
principal-agent model
institutions of the education system
JEL: 
H52
L32
I20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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