MOTIVATION, RESOURCES, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio
• 署名单位: University of Nottingham; Inter-American Development Bank; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvx001
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 199-231
• 关键词: class-size; achievement; CHOICE; education; vouchers; QUALITY; parents

摘要

This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers, and policymakers, the paper provides a rationale for the existing ambiguous empirical evidence on the effect of school resources. The paper also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education policies. (JEL: I20, I21, I28, J24)