Does the impact of private education on growth differ at different levels of credit market development?

Hatcher, Michael and Pourpourides, Panayiotis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2986-4094 2023. Does the impact of private education on growth differ at different levels of credit market development? Review of Development Economics 27 (1) , pp. 291-322. 10.1111/rode.12952

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Abstract

Using an overlapping generations model, we show that the impact of private financing of education on growth depends on credit market development, being positive when credit markets are adequately developed, but negative if sufficiently low levels of credit market development occur alongside relatively high private financing intensities. Employing cross-country data, we find that reduced-form growth relationships are statistically significant and robust under various controls and samples. We also lay out conditions under which economies with missing credit markets are dynamically efficient and outperform, in terms of growth, economies with complete credit markets. The latter may explain large cross-country differences in savings and growth, while facilitating the evaluation of policies on financing education.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1363-6669
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 September 2022
Date of Acceptance:	21 September 2022
Last Modified:	23 May 2023 14:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/152830

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