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Altruism, Education Subsidy and Growth

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  • Mauricio Armellini

    (Durham Business School)

  • Parantap Basu

    (Durham Business School)

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An optimal education subsidy formula is derived using an overlapping generations model with parental altruism. The model predicts that public education subsidy is greater in economies with lesser parental altruism because a benevolent government has to compensate for the shortfall in private education spending of less altruistic parents with a finite life. On the other hand, growth is higher in economies with greater parental altruism. Cross-country regressions using the World Values Survey for altruism lend support to our model predictions. The model provides insights about the reasons for higher education subsidy in richer countries.

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  • Mauricio Armellini & Parantap Basu, 2011. "Altruism, Education Subsidy and Growth," Department of Economics Working Papers 2011_07, Durham University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:dur:durham:2011_07
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