@article{c9e00d50b76247a8a654311ec62c9375,
title = "To segregate or to integrate: Education politics and democracy",
abstract = "How is the quality of public education affected by the presence of private schools for the rich? Theory and evidence suggest that the link depends crucially on the political system. We develop a theory that integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public schooling expenditures. We find that the presence of a large private education sector benefits public schools in a broad-based democracy where politicians are responsive to low-income families but crowds out public education spending in a society that is politically dominated by the rich. The main predictions of the theory are consistent with state-level data and micro data from the U.S. as well as cross-country evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment study.",
author = "{De La Croix}, David and Matthias Doepke",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements. We thank Sandy Black, Georges Casamatta, Jean Hindriks, Omer Moav, Fabien Moizeau, Vincent Vandenberghe, the editor, three anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Louvain-la-Neuve, Rotterdam, the Stockholm School of Economics, Toulouse, UCLA, Royal Holloway, Tel Aviv, and the SED Annual Meeting in Florence, for comments that helped to make substantial improvements to the paper. Simeon Alder and David Lagakos provided excellent research assistance. David de la Croix acknowledges financial support from the Belgian French-speaking community (Grant ARC 99/04-235) and the Belgian Federal Government (Grant PAI P5/21). Matthias Doepke acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (Grant SES-0217051) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00529.x",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "76",
pages = "597--628",
journal = "Review of Economic Studies",
issn = "0034-6527",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "2",
}