Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107317 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5115
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread increases tax rates and public school enrollment, but decreases public spending per student in low income economies, while it has opposite effects at high income levels. An increase in the average income level can also have non-monotonic effects.
Subjects: 
education funding
inequality
political economy
JEL: 
D72
H42
I21
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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