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dc.contributor.authorCremer, Helmuthen
dc.contributor.authorDe Donder, Philippeen
dc.contributor.authorPestieau, Pierreen
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-04-
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-14T08:26:36Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-14T08:26:36Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/30734-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x2951en
dc.subject.jelH52en
dc.subject.jelI28en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordelitismen
dc.subject.keywordegalitarianismen
dc.subject.keywordprivate educationen
dc.subject.stwPrivatschuleen
dc.subject.stwEliteen
dc.subject.stwBildungsverhaltenen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Mobilitäten
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleEducation and social mobility-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn620348305en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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