This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on “peer group” effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the … public schools as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …

work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …

It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the … investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak … dependence of hazard rates, which determine individuals’ behavioral response w.r.t. education, work and age of retirement …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …

fertility. The model is a three-period CGE framework where the design of the education system and effects on factor prices are … optimal if the education system has a fixed benefit rate. This design of education and pension systems assures that …

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …