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Educational Policy: Egalitarian or Elitist?
Author(s) -
Grossman Herschel I.,
Kim Minseong
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
economics and politics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-0343
pISSN - 0954-1985
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0343.00123
Subject(s) - predation , government (linguistics) , production (economics) , contrast (vision) , economics , microeconomics , ecology , computer science , biology , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence
This paper uses a general‐equilibrium model of production and predation to explain observed differences across countries in educational policies. This model predicts, in accord with the facts, that countries in which the government is willing and able to enforce a collective choice to allocate resources to guarding against predators choose to have egalitarian educational policies, which serve to decrease the amount of guarding required to deter predation. In contrast, countries in which individual producers, or small subsets of producers, choose the amount of resources to allocate to guarding against predators, taking the ratio of predators to producers as given, choose to have elitist educational policies, which can serve to decrease the number of potential predators.