Allocating government education expenditures across K-12 and college education

Economic Theory

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-112

  Blankenau, William ^a   Cassou, Steven P ^a   Ingram, Beth ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Government education expenditures; Heterogeneous agents; Human capital; Life cycle model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846540334     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0084-8     Document Type: Article

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